the.com/strange attractor
chaos has a shape, and it looks suspiciously like a butterfly having a nervous breakdown.
means a pattern that a chaotic system endlessly circles without ever repeating exactly or flying off to infinity.
from coined in the 1960s-70s when meteorologist edward lorenz found his simplified weather equations traced an infinite, never-repeating loop on a graph instead of settling down — later dubbed the lorenz attractor.
fractal dimensionthe shape has infinite detail at every zoom level
butterfly effectborn from the same lorenz weather model
never repeatsthe path never exactly retraces itself, ever
deterministic chaosfully predictable equations, wildly unpredictable outcomes