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Chaos and Nature

Originally Posted by Joe Cosella

In my project, I described how chaos is involved with different natural disasters. The examples I looked at were turbulence within the Earth's crust that causes earthquakes, flooding patterns in Southern China, and hurricane statistics.

I also introduced a sandpile game which can be found here.

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 by Registered CommenterR.A. DiDio in , | Comments2 Comments

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I love Typhoon and Earthquake: The Natural Disasters.

This presentation was very informative. The sandpile example was very interesting and reminiscent of the classroom chaos we did. Chaos, I believe, could be used to model natural disasters, howwever, I am still skeptical on its ability to predict there occurrence.
December 20, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterSean Houlihan
Sean - What distinction are you making between modeling and predicting that makes you skeptical?
December 21, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterRich DiDio

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