You wouldn't happen to know of a popularized treatment of chaos that
a) isn't *quite* as middle school level as Gleick (maybe something around the level of Weinberg or Hawking's popsci books?); and yet
b) treats incompletely deterministic chaos in a physical large dispersive medium like an non-uniform ordinary fluid (not Bose-Einstein condensates which are cool but rare at ordinary temperatures) sort of quantitatively rather than butterfly wing silliness (but without expecting the reader to understand too much math; Lagrangians would be Right Out). Like the chaotic fluid dynamics version of Chua's circuit. I keep looking and crickets.
(please reread your textbooks if you want to play with analogies to QM in public :) - real probability is the square root of the product of the complex amplitude and its complex conjugate, duh :) )
To your last, quoting The Offspring rather than a movie, "The Kids Aren't Alright".
Hi Carol -
You wouldn't happen to know of a popularized treatment of chaos that
a) isn't *quite* as middle school level as Gleick (maybe something around the level of Weinberg or Hawking's popsci books?); and yet
b) treats incompletely deterministic chaos in a physical large dispersive medium like an non-uniform ordinary fluid (not Bose-Einstein condensates which are cool but rare at ordinary temperatures) sort of quantitatively rather than butterfly wing silliness (but without expecting the reader to understand too much math; Lagrangians would be Right Out). Like the chaotic fluid dynamics version of Chua's circuit. I keep looking and crickets.
(please reread your textbooks if you want to play with analogies to QM in public :) - real probability is the square root of the product of the complex amplitude and its complex conjugate, duh :) )
To your last, quoting The Offspring rather than a movie, "The Kids Aren't Alright".