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a state of disturbance and disorder
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of liquid or gas: rough (rapid and irregular flow)
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of liquid or gas: rough (rapid and irregular flow)
- Dad told us that zone was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order.p. 61.9
- He'd been stone-cold sober since entering the hospital, and reading a lot more about chaos theory, particularly about the work of Mitchell Feigenbaum, a physicist at Los Alamos who had made a study of the transition between order and turbulence.p. 261.2
- Dad said he was damned if Feigenbaum didn't make a persuasive case that turbulence was not in fact random but followed a sequential spectrum of varying frequencies.p. 261.3
- A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.p. 288.9
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