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Chaos
Part of 1/31


What’s in it for me? Discover the order hiding beneath the chaos of life.
If it were up to physicists the world would run like clockwork: regularly and predictably according to a few simple rules. And for a long time they studied the world as if it did. Any signs of randomness and disorder in their data were dismissed as flukes.
But in the 1970s a handful of scientists decided to take these flukes seriously. Employing new computer technology they found chaotic behavior everywhere: in weather patterns the irregular drip of a faucet in the rhythm of our hearts. Then they realized something exciting: there was a strange order hiding behind the chaos.
These blinks tell the story of how the new field of chaos theory revolutionized science – and explain why chaos might be the ordering principle of life.
In these blinks you’ll learn
why we may blame a butterfly in Peking for a storm in New York;
why the coast of Britain is infinitely long; and
how to give a mosquito jet lag.