From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3efeacc6.7365491{at}216.144.1.254...

> I forget the technical descriptions of chaos that I read when Mandelbrot
> plots became popular. However, speaking pragmatically, suppose that you
> found that in order to predict details of the weather at a particular
> place and time next week, you would need to measure a zillion properties,
> and each measurement would have to be known with an incredibly high
> accuracy.
>
> Air and water move through the atmosphere with tiny perturbations due to
> brownian motion. What if the accuracy required was smaller than this
> motion? Chaos is (IMHO) a situation where it is KNOWN that the outcome can
> be GREATLY affected by really SMALL variations in the input.

I am not saying that prediction of precise future events will ever be
possible for man, what I am saying is that it's possible those future
events cannot be avoided, we are already committed to them.

Geo.

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