“But the experiment had never stopped. “There was the transition, very well defined,” Swinney said. “So that was great. Then we went on, to look for the next one.” There the expected Landau sequence broke down. Experiment failed to confirm theory. At the next transition the flow jumped all the way to a confused state with no distinguishable cycles at all. No new frequencies, no gradual buildup of complexity. “What we found was, it became chaotic.”