From: SReidTweed-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 05:23:59 EST
Subject: Re:  Re: Resistance, futility, who knows?



In a message dated 2/21/00 11:33:23 PM, mcpgsly-AT-mta.ca wrote:

<<What exactly is chaos theory?>>

Loosely, it's "the study of apparently chaotic phenomena," but the term 
usually refers to a specific set of studies of apparently chaotic phenomena. 
I'm not sure about this, but I think all chaoticians are specialists in 
mathematics. They create theories that try to predict the behaviour of 
complex systems like the weather. The web should be swarming with pages on 
chaos theory. For something really nifty, but totally unrelated, check out 
M-Theory. According to this latest incarnation of string theory, everything 
is made out of ten-dimensional soap bubbles!

-Stephen