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Are You a Messy?

Bewildered

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Pattern Disorder - A Snowflake Has Six Sides

Mathematicians thought they could predict everything if they knew the position and velocity of every particle. But nature has too many variables interacting in too many ways to be predictable. You can't, for instance, tell exactly what's going to happen if you bring a whole bunch of dinosaurs back to life on an island to make a theme park. So when he wrote jurassic park, michael crayton was borrowing from the mathematics of caos.

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