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aruba
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response 25 of 28:
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Jul 12 13:45 UTC 2003 |
Chaos Theory isn't something you believe or don't believe - it's just a way
of describing the behavior of certain systems.
By "essentially random", in #13, I mean that the day of the month is
on which the solstice falls is uniformly distributed over all possibilities.
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gregb
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response 26 of 28:
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Jul 15 16:50 UTC 2003 |
>Chaos Theory isn't something you believe or don't believe - it's just
a way
>of describing the behavior of certain systems.
On the contrary. That's why it's called a "theory." Not everyone
subscribes to it.
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aruba
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response 27 of 28:
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Jul 15 21:56 UTC 2003 |
Uh, no. That's not how mathematicians use the word theory.
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russ
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response 28 of 28:
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Jul 16 01:41 UTC 2003 |
Re #26: That is not a proper description of a scientific theory.
We have theories of gravity, but you'd have to be an idiot not to
believe that gravity exists. To confuse randomness and chaos
only requires ignorance, thank goodness.
(Chaos has been observed in putatively deterministic systems; a
random system is not deterministic.)
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