Here's the key passage (SPOILER ahead): > Losada had simply lifted the numbers that Lorenz used in 1963 to explain his method in the abstract, numbers used mer

Here's the key passage (SPOILER ahead): > Losada had simply lifted the numbers that Lorenz used in 1963 to explain his method in the abstract, numbers used merely for illustrative purposes. Losada’s results, along with the pretty butterfly graphs Brown had been shown in class, were essentially meaningless.