All systems at macro level that are observed to have orders are chaotic at quantum levels.
Dear Dejenie,
Chaos and order are relative terms. It depends on whether we are able to detect order in seemingly chaotic systems. In fact, the study of chaotic systems is precisely the study of order in them !
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Rajat
Why are you discussing my office? Chaos theory suggests that there is no chaos as we imagine it.
Indeed mathematically chaos is a system which is very sensitive to initial conditions and therefore observable.
@Scott Russell: Chaos theory suggests that there is no chaos as we imagine it.
Perhaps it is not chaos theory but rather the discovery of behaviour so unpredictable that the behaviour appears to be be random that provides us an instance of chaos. I can see the difficulty in discovering such behaviour, since randomness itself does not appear to be something that occurs in the physical world.
There is a stochastic self-similar and fractal measure in the universe. From atoms to our world and following then to macroscopic structures in the universe we may see a programmed or defined order, also programmed or defined chaos (sensitive dependence to initial conditions) through different scales. The importance of differentiate both (order and chaos) relies that chaos it is not disorder but a really creative state of any system that behaves with butterfly effects. We are observers, and for some phenomena we may establish deterministic rules, always having the same results, for some others there is periodicity with probable states and a probability calculus for such states, last but not least, chaotic states in which we cannot calculate precise predictions and repeatability it is impossible into such systems. However for such phenomena (chaos) and very close to a chaotic state, creativity it is always present at its most. The following article considers mainly chaotic behaviors, although, not leaving aside random and deterministic behaviors that also are relevant in planet earth and universe.
Article Evolution through the stochastic dyadic Cantor Set: the uniq...
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