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This document appears to be page 172 of a book titled 'Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?', included in a House Oversight Committee file dump (Bates stamp 015862). The text discusses Chaos Theory, specifically referencing Poincaré's work on orbits and the 'Four Body Problem,' as well as Edward Lorenz's discovery of the 'butterfly effect' in weather patterns during the 1960s when adjusting decimal precision in computer models.
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| Poincaré | Mathematician/Scientist |
Historical figure mentioned as winning a prize from the King of Bavaria for his proof related to system modeling.
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| King of Bavaria | Monarch |
Historical figure who awarded a prize to Poincaré.
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| Edward Lorenz | Scientist |
Studied weather patterns and chaos theory using computers in the 1960s.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015862' at the bottom of the page.
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1960s
Edward Lorenz studied weather patterns using computers and discovered the sensitivity of initial conditions (chaos theory) by altering decimal places.
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Mentioned in the title 'King of Bavaria'.
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Poincaré won a valuable prize for his proof from the King of Bavaria.
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"The only way to know is to build a perfect model of the system and see what happens."Source
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"Dropping the seventh and eighth decimal place represents a change of only one part in a million, yet the patterns of weather predicted by the computer were completely altered."Source
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Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
at some point in the future. The only way to know is to build a perfect model of the system and see what happens. Poincaré won a valuable prize for his proof from the King of Bavaria. You can see some amazingly complex orbits plotted below. Remember these are still deterministic and predictable – after all, they were calculated with a computer – they are just chaotic.
[Image of complex orbital plot]
Four Body Problem
Butterflies and Sliding Doors
After Poincaré, the field of chaos remained fairly quiet until Edward Lorenz began studying weather patterns using computers in the 1960s. The story goes, one day his computer was misbehaving and he had to re-key some data into the machine. Rather than using eight decimal places he used only six to save time, and was amazed when the results of his program came out completely different. Dropping the seventh and eighth decimal place represents a change of only one part in a million, yet the patterns of weather predicted by the computer were completely altered.
After Poincaré, the field of chaos remained fairly quiet until Edward Lorenz began studying weather patterns using computers in the 1960s. The story goes, one day his computer was misbehaving and he had to re-key some data into the machine. Rather than using eight decimal places he used only six to save time, and was amazed when the results of his program came out completely different. Dropping the seventh and eighth decimal place represents a change of only one part in a million, yet the patterns of weather predicted by the computer were completely altered.
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