Its future has yet to unfold. Until then, this resource is dedicated to the researchers and the students of whom each of us is part, and in particular to those who see themselves to be the students of life. May your feet find their way to Journey's End, And may the Age of Information dawn within. We are beginiing to discover that systems obeying immutable and precise laws do not always act in predictable and regular ways. Simple laws may not produce simple behaviour.
Deterministic laws can produce behaviour that appears random.
Order can breed its own kind of chaos. The question is not so much whether God plays dice, but how God plays dice. This dramatic discovery, whose implications have yet to make their full impact on our scientific thinking. The notions of prediction, or of a repeatable experiment, take on new aspects when seen through the eyes of chaos. In compensation, what was thought to be complicated may become simple.