More Fractal Geometry/Chaos Theory

[Mike Weaver]

The point which hasn't quite been made clear in this thread is that Chaos
Theory as a name became the popular tag as a result of the Gleick book,
which IMO is very good as a pop science stroll through a group of
distinguishable but connected scientific explorations.  In a sense the tag
obscures the vitality of the explorations,  which are as much about
(complex) order as much as about chaos.

Relativity covers the reality of cosmic dimensions,  quantum cats the
microscopic,  and complexity (chaos) theories are a macroscopic equivalent.
Newtonian science is revealed as an approximation at every level of existence.

 There is on the Web a Chaos Network with an annual conference
Network page is:  http://www.prairienet.org/business/ptech/full/rndnet.html 
Conference is:  http://www.prairienet.org/business/ptech/
Chaos and Complexity page,  being a plethora of links is:
http://www.cc.duth.gr/~mboudour/nonlin.html.

Now while we are on the subject would somebody care to describe for the rest
of the folk the gist of Stengers and Prigogines' dissipative structures
stuff which strikes me as pretty damn vital, an elaborate modern rendition
of ol' Heraclitus' "All is flux" and marxist dialectics made material to
boot. I'm not up to it.

G'night one and all

Mike

   
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