CHAOS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT  	
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	Georgia Tech PHYS 7123			 Fall semester 2001  
	Predrag Cvitanovic'

	Lecture 31           11:05-12:25 Thu Dec 6 2001 in Howey N209

Truth in advertising: What went wrong with this course?
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Once a textbook is written, it seems to be the truth. But nothing
looked clear when we started out on this path, and I think other
people might have formulated rather different theories at least
as convincing.

The problem, posed in its most general form, is old and appears
under many guises: Why are clouds the way they are? Is the solar system
stable?  What determines the structure of turbulence in liquids, 
the noise in electronic circuits, the stability of plasma in a tokomak? 
How can a system of so many imperfect components as the brain work
so well?

What we wanted to do was to junk your old equations and look for guidance in
clouds' repeating patterns. Then prove quark confinement as an effect of
Yang-Mills turbulence, write the universal equation for the brain 
(not kidding), and finally, understand why the clouds are the way they are.


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