5/22/2023 0 Comments Chaos john gleick![]() ![]() ![]() In 1961, having programmed a set of equations into the computer that would simulate future weather, he found that tiny differences in starting values could lead to drastically different outcomes. The story of chaos is usually told like this: Using the LGP-30, Lorenz made paradigm-wrecking discoveries. Instructions for the computer came from down the hall, from the office of a meteorologist named Edward Norton Lorenz. It was so loud that it even got its own office on the fifth floor in Building 24, a drab structure near the center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This “desk” computer - it was the size of a desk - weighed some 800 pounds and sounded like a passing propeller plane. It came not from a petri dish, a beaker or an astronomical observatory, but from the vacuum tubes and diodes of a Royal McBee LGP-30. A little over half a century ago, chaos started spilling out of a famous experiment. ![]()
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