May 29th, 2009 Chaos Theory in love
I was with a friend at a coffee shop drinking a Chai Latte and he was drinking a Mocha and discussing Chaos Theory wondering if the postulate of its basic assumption that complex and unpredictable results can and will occur in systems that are sensitive to their initial conditions. And that a common example of this is known as the Butterfly Effect stating that, in theory, the flutter of a butterfly’s wings in China could, in fact, actually effect the weather patterns in New York City. In other words, it is possible that a very small occurrence can produce unpredictable and sometimes drastic results by triggering a series of increasingly significant events, could also be applied in our room at one of the New York Business Hotels.
Would something I did on the twin bed situated on one side of the room cause a totally unexpected effect on the other side of the room where his single bed is located. I know, my friend and I are geeky, and yes we don’t have girlfriends, but at the same time, what a fascinating experiment that would be. We only had one more day in the New York Hotel room and we wondered if that would be enough time. Also enough time to come up with what the initial event could be that would be worthy and give a drastic result. We could throw in maybe an Attractor, a set to which a dynamic system evolves after a long enough time. We didn’t have the time. We then thought about using something from The String Theory, but, not being scientist, only scientist Wanna-Be’s, we didn’t know if we could mix the two, or could we? After all Chaos Theory emerged as a trans-disciplinary and institutional discipline under the name of nonlinear systems. And Alluded to a concept of paradigm shifts.
We finished our perspective drinks and headed on back we decided that experimenting in the hotel room would not be a good idea and it would be hard to, if we were successful, the same effects anywhere else. But, we were happy with the idea all on it’s own. We’ll both have to write about it on the wall of our Facebook accounts.
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