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Post by homunculi7 on Dec 16, 2004 22:20:00 GMT
Has anyone here ever heard of Chaos Theory. Anyone who's seen or read Jurassic Park I'm sure has heard of it. However, it's not just exclusive to that, it's actually a real world scientific study, and it's actually very interesting.
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Post by forcedtowritethis on Dec 17, 2004 0:56:09 GMT
Fractal geometry's great. Once in awhile I play around with fractals and iterations, but sometimes it involves a lot of tedious calculations and I'm terrible at iterations and adding, multiplying, and subtracting numbers and all that #$%!
I haven't seen that movie for years and I've never seen the sequels (heard they were horrible)
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Post by regan on Dec 17, 2004 4:18:05 GMT
I've only really seen it applied in Physics and Astronomy... which if I remember correctly (ugh... soo.... long agooo...) ties in with the idea of entropy and all that jazz.
And Radiohead, you can keep yer iterations; they drive me crazy! ~__^
~Regan
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Post by scone on Dec 17, 2004 4:31:07 GMT
the only thing i know about chaos theory is some randomness i've learned from sci-fi. physics is totally not my thing. (chem girl all teh way)
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Post by homunculi7 on Dec 17, 2004 21:44:46 GMT
Yeah all those fractals and iterations are pretty confusing, and I'll admit that I don't fully get them, nor do I completely understand chaos theory, but it's still very interesting, and Ian Malcolm explained it perfectly in the book.
Basically, what it states is that many things in this world are inherently unstable and unpredictable, such as weather, ocean currents, the human body, and man made organizations. Today, chaos theorists are still trying to find the hidden order behind the disorder in these chaotic events/objects, and although it hasn't gained very recognition among the media, many developments have been made in it. The most popular and most accurate interpretation of chaos theory is the Mandelbrot Set, look it up.
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Post by forcedtowritethis on Dec 17, 2004 23:51:19 GMT
Alright, Scone and Regan; some fellow scientists on this board! nor do I completely understand chaos theory, but it's still very interesting, and Ian Malcolm explained it perfectly in the book. Basically, what it states is that many things in this world are inherently unstable and unpredictable, such as weather, ocean currents, the human body, and man made organizations in it. Whoa. When I study fractal geometry and shapes, it has nothing to with objects/systems that are unstable; instead it's studying the symmetry of different objects and their properties; I'm probably confusin' the two. I'll definitely check this out. Yeah, the name is oddly familiar.
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Post by homunculi7 on Dec 18, 2004 4:07:25 GMT
Alright, Scone and Regan; some fellow scientists on this board! Whoa. When I study fractal geometry and shapes, it has nothing to with objects/systems that are unstable; instead it's studying the symmetry of different objects and their properties; I'm probably confusin' the two. I'll definitely check this out. Yeah, the name is oddly familiar. Well perhaps you don't understand the kind of chaos theory that I'm talking about. I've already kind of explained it, but the chaos theory I refer to is the theory that states the instability of many occurences in nature, and mankinds inability to control them. In fact that's what started the whole problem in Jurassic Park was because there were too many factors to consider and too many uncertainties in the parks structure and thus it was doomed to fail. The same is true with the real world. While we humans do have a pretty good grip on the world and we've got a nice little organization going on, there are still many things wrong with it, and there are many problems that come up in our lives that we do not foresee. Take computers for example, while they work most of the time, because we're very knowledgable about them and know how they work, they overall work well, but sometimes there are many things that go wrong with them that we cannot prevent or control, such as viruses, computer crashes and freeze ups. Anyway, math also somehow plays a part in chaose theory as well, although, as I said before, I don't completely understand it. But I believe it has something to do with determining probabilities and thus find the order within the disorder. Oh and the Mandelbrot Set was named after a man named Benoit Mandelbrot, does that ring a bell? |
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