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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (14621)	1/20/2003 9:53:19 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Once you study and understand the mathematics, it becomes obvious... I wouldn't believe it if there wasn't some reason for it. With salt grains on a membrane driven by speaker cone, you will see patterns that aren't predictable but are apparently allocated a range of motions by amplitude and frequency, but not deterministically. I'm glad you have the quality control to remove most of your defects through prevention but I would argue that finding the cause of your cracks doesn't tell you exactly where it will crack when it happens. Certainly by controlling the inputs you limit the complexity. We were discussing systems with a high complexity, and not systems where we sought to reduce their complexity intentionally. In complex systems you just can't know beyond a certain point because of the high leverage of initial conditions (mathematically speaking, high order derivatives). It becomes non-deterministic as to which initial condition caused it.