Lecture 5 - Chaos
Pin ball machine.
Slightly different initial conditions
(speed and direction of ball) -> large differences in motion
later.
One millionth degree difference ->
10° differnce after 7 pins.
Different from randomness - tossing
coin.
arrhythmia in hearts
flag flapping, butterfly effect.
Flatland analogy
Written c, 1880 by Edwin Abbot, mathematician.
Satire on class - more sides-> higher
class
lines (women)-> circles.
Sphere visits from spaceland!
We live in 4 dimensions.
God in 5th dimension? In the universe
but apart from it. Also above and beyond time.
Solomon, on building the temple:
"But will God really dwell on the
earth? The heaven, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you.
How much less the temple I have built!"
Jesus passed through walls while in
his resurrection body.
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