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Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
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Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:29:14 GMT
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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:58:40 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
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> Kidding aside, what chaos theory says is that most real systems are
> complex enough and have enough free variables in them that it is harder
> to model them than we once thought, and in a lot of systems very small
> perturbations in initial input produce large perturbations in the final
> system state.
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> It does NOT say that things can't be predicted, or that things happen
> completely randomly. Even at the quantum level when we speak of
> probability instead of certainty, there are still laws in operation and
> useful predictions that can be made.
In a truly chaotic system, where each quantum interaction produces
measurable macro effects, no _useful_ predictions can be made. Unless
you consider "Ther is on billionth of a percent chance that after a
microsecond the state will be this, and another on billionth of a
percent[...]" a useful prediction.
Choas theory, in combination with quantum effects, produces, in
essence, a physical and final time limit on useful predictions.
You will never be able to make a useful prediction about the weather a
decade from the point at which the prediction is made[1].
Jasper
[1] "from now" has obvious problems, I noticed when rereading..
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