Natural phenomena, like the red spot of Jupiter, could now be understood. What we are concerned with here is how all this relates to magic. Most of those who do this have some understanding of the relationship between magic and this area of science. To put it very simply, a successful magical act causes an apparantly acausal result. In studying turbulence, chaos scientists have realized that apparantly acausal phenomena in nature are not only the norm, but are measurable by simple mathematical equations.
Irregularity is the stuff life is made of.
For example, in the study of heartbeat rhythms and brain-wave patterns, irregular patterns are measured from normally functioning organs, while steady, regular patterns are a direct symptom of a heart attack about to occur, or an epileptic fit. This turbulence will likely cause a result, preferably as the magician has intended. Once the energy is released, control over the phenomena is out of the magician's hands, just as once the equation has been fed into the computer, the design follows the path set for it. The scientists who are working in this area would scoff at this explana- tion, they have no idea that they are in the process of discovering the physics behind magic. But then, many common place sciences of today, chemistry for example, were once considered to be magic.