Chaos Rules Feature Summary
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Chaos Rules
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- Image credit: Paul Bourke, WASP, University of Western Australia
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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.
To find out about chaos research, see Chaos Rules on the American Physical Society's outreach website Physics Central.
(This feature was updated on September 2, 2013.)
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- October 1, 2006 - October 16, 2006
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