The Most Terrifying Theory Scientists Don’t Even Want To Talk About

To play the Chaos Game

I set the number of points to be 3, clicked start, and set the speed to ‘fast’.

The key takeaway of chaos is this: even when your equations are perfectly deterministic, you cannot know the initial conditions of arbitrary sensitivities.

When the present determines the future, but, the approximate present does not approximately determine the future, is “Chaos”.

[scottrettig]

if a flap of a butterflies wing could cause a tornado somewhere else in the world, i now suddenly feel bad for every time i have ever farted.

[peraiahvelpula]

there's a book called whispers of manifestation on borlest, and it talks about how using some secret tehniques you can attract almost everything in life it's not some bullshit law of attraction, it's the real deal

[fumomofumosarum]

Flexl: " Looks familiar, right? "
Me: " The Triforce, from Legend of Zelda! "
Flexl: " It is indeed the sierpinski triangle. "
Me: " Aw... dammit... "

[klaushubbertz]

Chaos is just an euphemistic term for man's extremely restricted ability to grasp infinity ...

[WitchidWitchid]

Scientists may not want to talk about it. But Mathematicians are more than glad to talk about it. 😃

[OneBriteStar]

Unpredictability does not imply randomness. Notice that chaos theory only works where there is a pre-established set of rules, and those rules are determined by a conscious observer.

[Trottelheimer]

Click bait title - not watching this one.

[Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting]

The butterfly effect is when some egomaniacal primate singles out one butterfly among 28 billion buterflies, all flapping their wings at the same time in Brazil, and saying that this particular butterfly is to blame for a dust-devil in Australia 127 years, 6 months, 3 days, 12 hours 38 minutes and 12.9567831427 seconds later...as opposed to any other butterfly which flapped it's wings in that moment in time. The Butterfly Effect is confirmation bias on the grand scale, randomly confusing cause and effect because no-one stops to ask if the flap of the butterfly's wing causes the change in the air current or if it is the change in the air current which is the reason that the butterfly chooses that precise moment to flap it's wing in a particular direction.

[thdim]

What a nice summation of chaos theory! Love it. I believe it’s easier to envision all this when we remember that our reality is defined not in linear/causal 4D spacetime, but in the five dimensions of the quantum wavefunction.

[mactabilis]

"irregularity is a charecteristic property" isn't irregularity a measure of the complexity of an "algebraic surface" while charecteristic property refer to identification and classification system, particularly substances. my mind is blown btw, thanks OP! great work!

[BennyMcGhee]

There’s more than one butterfly in the world flapping its wings. The scariest thing about the universe is that our tiny little brains are capable of taking it all in. Imagine a brain the size of the Sun. Or a galaxy. Indeed, the entire universe could be one giant brain. Either way, we are all individually burdened with the weight of our own existence. Sometimes it takes getting really stoned to understand the heaviness of it all.

[Nonononono_Ohno]

The best part of the video starts here: 20:39

[giannicallegari]

Good job, well done, guys! I am a physicist and have studied these phenomena, yet they do not cease to give me shivers and awe!

[davidwood]

The 3 dots in there positions all ready represent a triangle, so it will form many triangles .

[AT-olyj]

There was nothing “chaotic” about the chaos game at the beginning. You were following a set of rules that would obviously lead to the Sierpinski Triangle if you put some thought into it. The second game wasn’t deterministic as you were randomly removing a number, even though it was the first number, you’re still removing a random element. After watching the first two fails you lost me on this one.

[marshallodom]

And when we cancel out Infinities on either side of an equation we ignore an infinite amount of factors.

[noprivacyleft]

This video is perhaps adequate at describing a layman's superficial understanding of the subject matter, but never really explains what the "terrifying theory scientists don't want to talk about" is, or why it is "terrifying". This is pretty much click bait drivel as far as I can tell, but with a quite a bit of effort put into it, so slightly better than most click bait drivel. I clicked it, so it worked.

[MATU]

Wow - what a great explanation. A complex topic that has been distilled down to 20m, a sign of brilliance. Excellent!

[wadeedden]

Thermodynamics and its laws are a good place to start to study chaos theory. Even though individual particles of a gas move randomly we can predict temperature, pressure, and volume. Keep in mind that the ontology of thermodynamics includes a caveat. Included in the analysis is the requirement of a quasistatic, adiabatic process. If you want a more humanistic idea of this you should read Issac Asimov and his Foundation series of books. The premise of the Foundation series relies on the “gas laws” of classical physics to sketch out the story.

[Edenismdotca]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. This topic absolutely fascinating!