Many Penn State web sites have been cataloged by the CAC search engine. Click here to search other web sites at Penn State for information on this subject. The good, the bad and the bogus from the web as a whole are constantly being cataloged. Take your chances and click here to search the entire Web for information on this subject. Each is a good example of a chaotic system.
Many folks think of chaos as the opposite of order - totally random events.
And that is an acceptable definition in some contexts. For the person who is fascinated by systems that operate by known laws but whose behavior is seemingly impossible to predict, the word chaos takes a specific meaning - sensitive dependence on initial conditions . That describes how weather systems operate, and other chaotic systems as well. It may sound simple, but it's not. It's the reason the TV weatherman can't tell you if it's going to rain the week after next.