http://climateaudit.org/2005/02/22/hendrik-tennekes-retired-director-of-research-royal-netherlands-meteorological-institute/ by Steve McIntyre Fri, 24 May 2013 19:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://climateaudit.org/2005/02/22/hendrik-tennekes-retired-director-of-research-royal-netherlands-meteorological-institute/#comment-32118 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:08:55 +0000 /?p=94#comment-32118 Just wondering… I once read a book on chaos, which started with Lorenz’s butterfly (thoroughly explained). I just can’t remember if the butterfly of Lorenz draws upon the classical chaos of classical systems. Classical systems are closed systems and the earth is (I think) not a closed system. The real paradigm shift has been from ‘classical’ to ‘quantum mechanics’. With the latter you’d still get chaos, but it would be a characteristic of complexity, not ‘sensitive to initial conditions’ and so on. At least, that’s what I think…

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