Cosmic Play

Van Eenwyk (1997) talks about chaos theory as it applies to ideas found Jung’s Analytical Psychology. He reminds us that part of Jung’s gen

Getting back to the coastline example, paradoxically, when you use a finer measurement scale, the length of the coastline increases, so not

Fractals are self-similar across scale, they look the same, and their details are repeated at different scales or descending levels of magni

Fractal is a term coined in 1975 by Benoit Mandelbrot in to denote configurations that transcend traditional numerical categories. Like opt

Strange attractors are not the only kind of attractors, but they are by far the most interesting. Other attractors are easier to describe a

Nonlinear iteration can be pictured as a taffy puller or a baker kneading bread dough. Indeed, mathematicians call what happens when nonlin

If you have read Robert Frost’s Poem “The Road Not Taken” (1916), then you actually know a lot about bifurcation and sensitive dependence o

Chaos or nonlinear dynamics can paradoxically be explained by very simple equations, called nonlinear equations, which Briggs and Peat (1989

Like so many other relevant trends, chaos theory had its beginning around the turn of the Twentieth Century with Henri Poincaré in the 1890.

Many ancient peoples believed that the universe came from a primordial state of chaos or nothingness. For the Greeks, a la Hesiod, this pri