Chaotic systems are highly sensitive to initial conditions. That means these systems are fully deterministic but also utterly unpredictable.
Lorenz killed Laplace's demon in 1961 by rounding 0.506127 to 0.506 and getting a different winter. Forecast and understanding aren't the same game.
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Inside Climate NewsInside Climate News explains the data, FOIA requests, and field reporting behind its investigation of America's new lithium-mining frontier.
Dark matter is thought to comprise over 85% of all matter in the Universe, and we have not the faintest idea what it is.
Particle physics has chased something defined by what it isn't for 40 years. The next collider is $17B of the same wager. Maybe humility is the breakthrough.
youtube.comLongest Lex episode ever, and unusually good because he actually gets the surgeons, engineers, and Noland - the first human with a Neuralink implant - into the same room. The section where Noland talks about controlling a cursor with his mind is genuinely wild.