Monday, June 30, 2008
6:28 PM
chaos theory describes the behavior of certain
dynamical systems – that is, systems whose state evolves with time – that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the
butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be
random. This happens even though these systems are
deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply
chaos.
The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in
chaos theory. Small variations of the
initial condition of a
dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.
(a butterfly's flap may lead to a Tornado!!! imagine what will happen to your fart! lol)
credits : wikipedia
2012 is jus a leap year and there is no end of the world on a certain day. 21 december is simply the winter solstice.