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Chaos = Order: WUSTL Physicists Make Baffling Discovery - Pandemoniumm On
Demand, Washington University in St. Louis News & Information
 









Excerpts: While working on their model - a network of interconnected pendulums,
or "oscillators" - the researchers noticed that when driven by ordered forces
the various pendulums behaved chaotically (...). This was unexpected - shouldn't
synchronized forces yield synchronized pendulums?  But then came the real
surprise: When they introduced disorder - forces were applied at random to each
oscillator - the system became ordered and synchronized.  "The thing that is
counterintuitive is that when you introduce disorder into the system - when the
[forces on the pendulums] act at random - the chaos that was present before
disappears and there is order," (...).
Source: Chaos = Order: WUSTL Physicists Make Baffling Discovery - Pandemoniumm
On Demand[ http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/6845.html ], Douglas M.
Main, Washington University in St. Louis News & Information, 06/04/05

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