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Asymmetrical symbol of Chaos

Chaos (derived from the Greek Χάος, Chaos) typically refers to unpredictability, and is the antithetical concept of cosmos. The word χάος did not mean "disorder" in classical-period ancient Greece. It meant "the primal emptiness, space" (see Chaos (mythology)). Chaos is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root ghn or ghen meaning "gape, be wide open": compare "chasm" (from Greek χάσμα), and Anglo-Saxon gānian ("yawn"), geanian, ginian ("gape wide"); see also Old Norse Ginnungagap. Due to people misunderstanding early Christian uses of the word, the meaning of the word changed to "disorder". (The Ancient Greek for "disorder" is ταραχή.). Mathematically, chaos means an aperiodic deterministic behavior which is very sensitive to its initial conditions, i.e., infinitesimal perturbations of boundary conditions for a chaotic dynamic system originate finite variations of the orbit in the phase space; see chaos theory. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... Chaos is disorder or entropy. ... Image File history File links Created by Ant Allan, based on the w:symbol of Chaos devised by w:Michael Moorcock. ... Image File history File links Created by Ant Allan, based on the w:symbol of Chaos devised by w:Michael Moorcock. ... Symbol of Chaos Symbol of Chaos Symbol of Chaos Symbol of Chaos Symbol of Chaos Symbol of Chaos Symbol of Chaos – asymmetrical variant In Michael Moorcocks Eternal Champion stories, the Symbol of Chaos comprises eight arrows in a radial pattern (in contrast, the symbol of Law is a single... Predictability refers to the degree that a correct prediction of a systems state can be made either qualitatively or quantitatively. ... The Ancient and Medieval cosmos as depicted in Peter Apians Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1539). ... Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around one thousand years. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Chaos. ... The Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages. ... The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap (seeming emptiness or gaping gap) was a vast chasm that existed before the ordering of the world. ... A plot of the trajectory Lorenz system for values r = 28, σ = 10, b = 8/3 In mathematics and physics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that under certain conditions exhibit a phenomenon known as chaos. ...

Physics

Main article: Chaos (physics)

Chaos in physics is often considered analogous to thermodynamic entropy. Thermodynamics (from the Greek thermos meaning heat and dynamics meaning power) is a branch of physics that studies the effects of changes in temperature, pressure, and volume on physical systems at the macroscopic scale by analyzing the collective motion of their particles using statistics. ...

See also

• Alignment (role-playing games)
• Chaos: Making a New Science
• Chaos magic
• Chaos theory
  • Butterfly effect
• Cosmos
• Discordianism
• Interconnectedness