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From Physics Research
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Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction
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This image shows the "Lorentz attractor," a graph that represents the behavior of a simple model of Earth's weather. Weather is just one example of a chaotic system, in which seemingly irregular behavior does follow certain patterns.

For an overview of chaos theory that concisely explains the characteristics of chaotic systems, see Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction.
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image credit: <a href="http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lorenz/" target="_blank">Paul Bourke</a>, University of Western Australia; <a href=" http://www.compadre.org/informal/images/features/attractor-large.jpg" target="_blank">larger image</a>
image credit: Paul Bourke, University of Western Australia; larger image
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http://www.compadre.org/Informal/images/features/attractor-large.jpg
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June 8, 2011 - June 22, 2011