"Form and chaos, order and disorder are like rivals competing for supremacy in the vast arena
that is our universe. Nature throws grotesque shapes and turbulent events at us and yet,
within them, we strive to find evidence of patterns that we can classify and understand.
For centuries man has struggled to impose order on a perversely irregular world, and what he
couldn't understand was often ignored. Now, armed with a new weapon, the computer, man is at
last challenging the kingdom of chaos. Describing the shapes and forms of the world, where
the only straight lines are the ones he has introduced. A new science is emerging from this
challenge, a science which promises to describe and explain the infinite complexity of the
busy world in which we live. It's a science which is producing a new geometry that offers an
insight into the surprising paradox that there is order even within disorder. It's a science
that is turning conventional thinking on its head. A science called... Chaos."
Jeff Goldblum made a half-arsed attempt at explaining chaos theory in "Jurassic Park", with his water drops and their "sensitive dependence on initial conditions". This fascinating documentary makes a much better job of it. Some of the pioneers of chaos theory help to explain, amongst other things, affine transformations, fractals, strange attractors and the butterfly effect.
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Filename: Equinox - Chaos.avi
File size: 427MB
Duration: 51m29s
Video resolution: 512x384 (Average 1025 kBit/s 2-Pass XviD) De-interlaced