What is the Chaos theory?
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Chaos, or randomness, is not a very well understood concept. In the sense that we have not found the beginning of determinism, or Order, and the end of randomness.
Before, we used to believe that randomness was the result of complicated and complex systems. Yet, with modern physics, very complex systems that seemed random before were found to be deterministic.
In the other end, simple systems, which we would believe to be very easy to know the outcome, are seemingly random. Most of the time, the systems simply are very sensitive to starting variables.
Nevertheless, chaos theory studies these systems. They analyse what we call random, and tries to find how deterministic we can make them be.
Think of snowflakes for example. They have unique shapes, and it seems impossible to determine what the shape of a snowflake will be. Yet, could we understand the parameters that affect their shape and be able to reproduce the shape of snowflakes by controlling the initial parameters?
Overall, chaos theory tries to find order and determinism in what is seemingly chaotic and random.
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