To Ford, the presence of chaos in the Duffing equation was a curious fact—just one of those things he knew to be true, although several years passed before it was published in Physical Review Letters. But he might as well have told a gathering of paleontologists that dinosaurs had feathers. They knew better. “When I said that? Jee-sus Christ, the audience began to bounce up and down. It was, ‘My daddy played with the Duffing equation, and my granddaddy played with the Duffing equation, and nobody seen anything like what you’re talking about.’ You would really run across resistance to the
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