guthrie
Posts: 696 Joined: Jan. 2006
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Quote (cogzoid @ April 03 2006,13:52) | Quote | As for chaos, is the sun chaotic? Are the orbits of the planets chaotic? | Actually they are. The orbits of the planets cannot be predicted analytically (by using a simple formula) but rather have to be calculated numerically. Numerical solutions always have errors, whereas analytical solutions are exact. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_body_problem
The sun's dynamics (sun spots, magnetic pole flips, etc.) are extremely chaotic.
The universe is a messy place.
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Sure, messy, but yet sunspots and things like the Jupiter red spot are kind of like bits of order in chaos, arent they? (I'm obliquely referring to abiogenesis and the way that life seems to live on the edges of chaos, producing order out of disorder)
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