RE: Chaos theory
July 14, 2014 at 7:11 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2014 at 7:12 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 14, 2014 at 7:04 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Well that would be a thing much like a mouse releasing a mousetrap. Hardly a good example.
Except this is not just one mouse trap, but many, each of them different. Some of them powerful enough to kill a tyrannosaurs. And perhaps some of them set to snap shut on a trigger for a stick of dynamite, or even the trigger for a nuclear bomb.
When you drop a pebble, your precision is not such that you can predict which one, if any, it will land on. Your knowledge of the traps is not such that you call say ahead of time whether each of trap will shut if the pebble lands on it, and whether the trap, if closing, will trigger any bombs that might be rigged to the cheese plate. This is a better approximation of the idea of chaos.
