From: John Beckett 

"Geo."  wrote in message
news::
> To a caveman the events that happened to display your post on my screen
> would seem like that, yet here is your post. Imagine that now as if you were
> the caveman. My computer has multiple tasks, the network we use can't be
> predicted, yet changes in those things to some degree are ok and won't stop
> the display of your post on my screen.

But I don't think anyone here is claiming that displaying a message is an
example of a chaotic process. There are lots of complexities in networks,
but it is a digital system designed to (mostly) work.

OTOH next week's weather involves chaotic processes: There is no guiding
principle encouraging a particular outcome. The result in a particular
place and time is highly dependent on a vast number of contributing
factors. It is believed (with good reason) that precise, localised
predictions of next week's weather are chaotic in the sense that tiny
events (the proverbial butterfly) could influence the outcome, and without
resorting to the X-Files, we can't make all the required measurements, let
alone the calculations.

> ... I find a parallel universe that's time shifted one week into the
future,..

Well maybe. However, while I admire the poetry of your post, I have to be
the curmudgeon and point out that rational discussion is pretty hard if
someone starts invoking the supernatural.

John 

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