The chaos theory has much to do with randomness and minor things affecting major events after huge magnification. One main example of the chaos theory in action is this: A butterfly in China is on a flower and it flaps its wings once very gently. The slight disturbance in the air causes major fluctuations in the atmosphere that travel to the Atlantic ocean and either cause or stop a major hurricane from forming.

Edward Lorenz (in the 1960's)first found the chaos theory by accident. He was watching some gases in a box and he had found equations describing the flow of the gases. He fed some numbers into a few of these equations and he got a result he didn't think was right, so he fed them in again and got a completely different result. He looked into the problem later and found out that instead of rounding to six decimals the computer had rounded to three decimal places, causing the huge flux. The graph of these lines showed them totally different, and the three dimensional graph describes two interlocking circles with lines that never intersect.
The graph can be seen here.
These are examples of the butterfly affect, the main part of the chaos theory.


The chaos theory has been found to be put to good use, being used in some products. A while ago a chaos washing machine was introduced which used "fuzzy circuits" to randomly move the agitator up and down. This chaoctic movement supposedly would clean clothes much better.

Another example of chaos other than the butterfly affect can be found in the solar system. When just one body is orboiting around another body (planet around a star) its movement is easily predicted, and always the same. However, when you introduce an infinite amount of bodies into the mix (all the other planets and stars) the movement becomes somewhat chaoctic and cannot be predicted.


This is all for the chaos theory for now, come back later for more!!!