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In example after example, the message was the same: everything is connected, and often with incredible sensitivity. Tiny perturbations won’t always remain tiny. Under the right circumstances, the slightest uncertainty can grow until the system’s future becomes utterly unpredictable—or, in a word, chaotic.
Complexity
M. Mitchell Waldrop
For example, we don’t know of a way to fuse two nitrogen nuclei to produce silicon. But if we could do so, it would produce about one million times as much energy per weight as gasoline. Fusing the approximately one gram of nitrogen contained in one liter of air—a good hard sigh—would produce a quarter teaspoon of sand as ash, along with enough energy to run George Jetson’s 1,341-horsepower flying car for 13 hours.
Where Is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall
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