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An Introduction to Chaos Feature Summary

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From Physics Research
Title:
An Introduction to Chaos
Description:
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 random behavior does follow certain patterns.

To learn more about the Lorentz attractor and chaos, visit An Introduction to Chaos.
Image:
image credit: Paul Bourke, University of Western Australia; <a href="http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lorenz " target="_blank">image source</a>; <a href="http://www.compadre.org/informal/images/features/attractor-large.jpg
image credit: Paul Bourke, University of Western Australia; image source; https://www.compadre.org/Informal/images/features/Lorentzattractor-large1.jpg
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