Beth Plutchak

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But most startling of all was the nonlinear phenomenon known as chaos. In the everyday world of human affairs, no one is surprised to learn that a tiny event over here can have an enormous effect over there. For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, et cetera. But when the physicists started paying serious attention to nonlinear systems in their own domain, they began to realize just how profound a principle this really was.
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
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