3 ms·
Exactly. Chaos can be deterministic. Its sensitive dependence on initial conditions (among other things) that makes it chaotic.
by codeulike 14y ago
Exactly. Chaos can be deterministic. Its sensitive dependence on initial conditions (among other things) that makes it chaotic.
- DougBTX 14y agoWhen simulating a chaotic system, using different rounding for the floating point values will affect the simulation by a small amount, which a chaotic system is liable to amplify. Quantisation of reality seems to be analogous to rounding floats, in the sense that it affects the precision of the measurements. I'd be interested to know whether that affects the "running" of the system like with floats in a simulation, or if it only puts a limit on how well the initial conditions can be defined.
- arjie 14y agoDoesn't the traditional definition _require_ it to be deterministic? I recall James Gleick describing it that way.
- Kapura 14y agoChaos is deterministic, but I'm always told that some quantum things are NOT deterministic, i.e. a single photon being exposed to two slits in a paper. My understanding is that the opening it goes through is random; how can that be reconciled with deterministic models of the universe?
- codeulike 14y agoWell, thats a different question. http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/in-which-way-does-quantum-mechanics-disprove-determinism http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/in-which-...