CHAOS THEORY
Quantum weather butterfly (Papilio tempestae). Butterfly of the storms. It flaps its wings… and Freak Gales Cause Road Chaos.
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Kaos, Fifth horseman of the apocralypse. Embodies apparently patternless behaviour that nevertheless has a simple deterministic explanation and is a key to new levels of understanding of the multi-dimensional universe, or so Lu-Tze says. Rides out on a chariot drawn by a black horse which shines as though illuminated by a red light. His eyes are black, his helmet has eyeholes that look slightly like the wings of a butterfly.
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"The trouble was that ignorance became more interesting, especially big fascinating ignorance about huge and important things like matter and creation, and people stopped patiently building their little houses of rational sticks in the chaos of the universe and started getting interested in the chaos itself—partly because it was a lot easier to be an expert on chaos, but mostly because it made really good patterns that you could put on a t-shirt.
“And instead of getting on with proper science* scientists suddenly went around saying how impossible it was to know anything, and there wasn’t really anything you could call reality to know anything about, and how all this was tremendously exciting, and incidentally did you know there were possibly these little universes all over the place but no-one can see them because they are all curved in on themselves? Incidentally, don’t you think this is a rather good t-shirt?”
[WITCHES ABROAD]
* Like finding that bloody butterfly whose flapping wings cause all these storms we’ve been having lately and getting it to stop.
“And instead of getting on with proper science* scientists suddenly went around saying how impossible it was to know anything, and there wasn’t really anything you could call reality to know anything about, and how all this was tremendously exciting, and incidentally did you know there were possibly these little universes all over the place but no-one can see them because they are all curved in on themselves? Incidentally, don’t you think this is a rather good t-shirt?”
[WITCHES ABROAD]
* Like finding that bloody butterfly whose flapping wings cause all these storms we’ve been having lately and getting it to stop.