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Complexity and Chaos

Written By : Dr. Roger White
Narrated By : Edwin Newman
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 2 hours 30 minutes
Categories : 20th Century
Ancient
Biographical
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Newtonian physics described a regular, clock-like world of forces and reaction; randomness was equated with incomplete knowledge. But scientists in the late twentieth century have found patterns in things formerly thought to be "chaotic"; their theories help explain the unstable, irregular, yet highly structured features of everyday experience. It now seems likely that randomness and chaos play an essential role in the evolution of the living worldand in intelligence itself.

The Science and Discovery series recreates history's four thousand year journey to better understand the world through scientific means. Scientific discovery has often disrupted conventional wisdom. This is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress.


Memorial University of Newfoundland

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