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Published: November 12, 2006
This paper
explains that James Gleick in his book "Chaos: Making a New Science" reports the work of meteorologist and pioneer of the
Chaos theory, Edward Lorenz, to computerize the forecasting of weather based on physical laws. The author points out that Gleick explains, even though the straight-forward mathematical attempt by Lorenz to find weather averages was a "failure", Lorenz discovered that the phenomenon of climate instability was related to the chaos theory. The paper relates that Lorenz' two non-linear discoveries are (1) that models of chaotic
systems have an exquisitely sensitive
dependence on initial dependence called the
butterfly effect and (2) that even simple systems can show complex, chaotic behavior proving that the "clockwork"
universe doesn't exist. Table of Contents Gleick's Belief of the Possibility to Forecast Weather The Butterfly Effect Nonlinear and Linear Systems Similar to Predicting the Motions of Planets Link between Aperiodic Behavior and Unpredictable Behavior Thermal Convection
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