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Shawnodese
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Posted : May 2, 2008 22:34:24
Just reading Frazier Clark's newsletter, I discovered another truly (r)evolutionary personality of major importance to the world as we know it nowadays has left our reality grid, to shift into another one....

"Predictability:
Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil
Set Off a Tornado in Texas?"

Edward Lorenz, Father of Chaos Theory, blends into the Larger Fractal at 90. The father of Chaos Theory, who showed how small actions lead to major changes in what became known as the "Butterfly Effect," died on Wednesday 16th, of cancer, at the age of 90.

Lorenz, a meteorologist, figured out in the 1960s that small differences in any dynamic system (the Stock Exchange, a woman's heart, a planet's atmosphere) could set off enormous changes. In 1972 he presented a study entitled "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?"

Born in 1917 in West Hartford, Connecticut, Lorenz earned degrees in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1938, from Harvard University in 1940, and degrees in meteorology from MIT in 1943 and 1948. While serving as a weather forecaster for the US Army Air Corps in World War Two, he decided to study meteorology.

"As a boy I was always interested in doing things with numbers, and was also fascinated by changes in the weather," Lorenz wrote in an autobiography.

Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and Chaos Theory
"By showing that certain deterministic systems have formal predictability limits, Lorenz put the last nail in the coffin of the Cartesian universe, and fomented what some have called the 3rd Scientific Revolution of the 20th century, following on the heels of relativity and quantum physics... and he was a perfect gentleman who, through his intelligence, integrity and humility, set a very high standard for his and succeeding generations." Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at MIT, in a statement.

"Lorenz made his boldest scientific achievement in discovering 'deterministic chaos,' a principle which has profoundly influenced a wide range of basic sciences and brought about one of the most dramatic changes in mankind's view of Nature since Sir Isaac Newton." The prize committee, in 1991, when they awarded Lorenz the Kyoto Prize for basic sciences in the field of earth and planetary sciences.

His family say Edward enjoyed hiking and cross-country skiing, and stayed active until two weeks before his death, at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is survived by three children and four grandchildren.
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Posted : May 2, 2008 23:40
RIP. The Strange Attractors lost their father.
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Posted : May 3, 2008 13:35
RIP

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Posted : May 3, 2008 18:09
Respect
Edward RIP
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Posted : May 4, 2008 13:16
R.I.P.           ...
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