Ep 176: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 2
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The Butterfly Effect
The butterfly effect appears to demonstrate what is called chaos but this is not genuine chaos there's no such thing as genuine chaos for chaos to be chaos i suppose it would have to be completely indeterminate you wouldn't be able to. The difference between the real trajectory and the predicted trajectory calculated from slightly inaccurate data tends to grow exponentially and irregularly chaotically with time so that after a while the original slightly imperfectly known status has no guide at all to what the system is doing. In order to predict what a typical classical system will do after only a moderate period one would have to determine its initial state to an impossibly high precision daset is said that in principle the flap of
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