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Chaos
Chaos: Making a New Science | James Gleick
The blockbuster modern science classic that introduced the butterfly effect to the worldeven more relevant two decades after it became an international sensation For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive onesand complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before. In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us.
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I'm picking this one up again. I read this a few years back, and it took me a couple of months to work through. I fully expect to find the same thing this time.
Physics fascinates me, I love listening to people talk about some of the big issues, but I have to ease myself in as I find some of it so overwhelming!

#chaos #science #physics #butterflyeffect

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Some of my shelves 🤗 #SisforSeptember #shelfie

RadicalReader @CaliforniaCay what‘s your favorite coffee? ( Iced, hot, creamer, sugar, flavor) 6y
CaliforniaCay @RadicalReader I'm not picky when it comes to coffee, I will literally drink it in any form! When I go to starbucks I usually get it iced with vanilla. When I'm at home I usually enjoy it hot with a splash of cream and sugar 🤗 6y
RadicalReader @CaliforniaCay both sound divine! They need to now make a coffee Dr Seuss coffee coffee here or there I will drink it anywhere!! 6y
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CoffeeCatsBooks
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@Kati.Watson dropped your package off at UPS tonight but forgot to take a picture. It‘ll be the blue BOTM box headed your way. My cats are ashamed of my disorganization! #MugLove

Kati.Watson Looking forward to it! Despite your cats opinion, I'm okay with your disorganization. Because I'm like that as well lol. 7y
MrBook 😻😻😻 7y
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Bailedbailed

I've wrestled with this one but I think I finally have to give up, it's just not what I want. It seems a strange book to me, Too much focus on elements that I found tiresome (extensive biographies, using several metaphors where one, or none, would suffice) and too little on others (defining obscure scientific terms, explaining diagrams). I've probably overreached myself but Gleick's style also just doesn't work for me 🙁