{"id":16825,"date":"2015-09-02T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/physicists-discover-hidden-chaos-lurking-everywhere"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:44:11","slug":"physicists-discover-hidden-chaos-lurking-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/physicists-discover-hidden-chaos-lurking-everywhere","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Discover \u201cHidden Chaos\u201d Lurking Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n-mpifTiPV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It appears that the standard tools used to identify chaotic signatures might be missing lots of hidden chaos \u2014 especially in systems that seem like they\u2019re not chaotic at all.<\/p>\n<p>Chaos theory is famously associated with so-called \u201cstrange attractors,\u201d marked by a telltale butterfly-wing shape (see above). But according to a new paper by two University of Maryland mathematicians, sometimes chaos looks more like \u201ca strange repeller,\u201d or something else entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScientists talk a lot about chaos and they don\u2019t agree exactly on the [mathematical] definition,\u201d Brian Hunt, one of the co-authors, told Gizmodo. So when the journal <em>Chaos<\/em> asked him and his UMD collaborator, Edward Ott, to write something for its 25th anniversary, he jumped at the chance to to come with a broader definition of chaos \u2014 a kind of universal signature, if you will \u2014 that would provide a handy mathematical tool for ferreting out where chaos might be hiding in previously unsuspected areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/physicists-discover-hidden-chaos-lurking-everywhere-1728094449\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the standard tools used to identify chaotic signatures might be missing lots of hidden chaos \u2014 especially in systems that seem like they\u2019re not chaotic at all. Chaos theory is famously associated with so-called \u201cstrange attractors,\u201d marked by a telltale butterfly-wing shape (see above). But according to a new paper by two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64327,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16825\/revisions\/64327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}