belongs in the science forum - ben
What the f is it? 
This is more of a science question, but here goes. Chaos theory says that small variations can have far reaching effects on the overall outcome of a scenario. For example a butterfly flying over New York City can cause major changes in the weather a few days later. It also explains why it may be impossible to ever predict the weather completely. As James Gleick explains, even if you had sensors 1 ft apart throughout the atmosphere up to its very limits, small variations between the sensors would eventually erode any predictable outcome.
Yes, a friend and I were talking about this just this new years.
The edit made out with me and we shared very many personal and intimate conversations. Then we started talking about how that night would affect all others. We spoke of the butterfly effect. How if we could go into the past, it would destroy the future. That if time travel were possible, then everything would be chaos by virtue of the fact that time itself would constantly be in a state of flux. Then we began talking about historical evolution and the evolution of the christian faiths.
When I awoke, after a couple hours sleep, next to her, deep in love and feeling wanted, she wanted to brush it off and say that there is nothing between us. waves goodbye to his butterfly
Anyway, chaos theory isn’t really chaos, it’s apparent randomness.
Think of fractals, they appear random, but if you enter the same equation into the same computer program, it will come out the same if you start with the same starting point…100% of the time.
Chaos theory is really probability theory when it comes down to it. Fun stuff!!
Whatever ben. 
Is that all there is to it? I went to the store before and saw giant books on it and thought it was more.
Couldn’t this explain supernatural phenomena? IE, there is is a chance that at one, if not a few, stage(s) in our lives, our sensory equipment may fail us and we may start seeing things.
chaos theory goes a long way in explaining fluid thermodynamics and a lot of other natural phenomena. Chaos by James Gleick is the book i read.
Is it good? I was considering reading it when I got back to school.
It’s good, not at all technical and goes far in explaining the beauty of things like koch snowflakes and the history of chaos theory.
Reminds me of Entropy in Chemistry about randomness of how the reactant particles move to form product.