This vaguely reminds me of uncertainty principles—both involve a finite amount of information available in a system, where the more you know about one aspect, the less you know about all the others—but I don’t know how to make the resemblance precise or whether it’s actually relevant to chaos theory.
The usual way the uncertainty principle comes in is that we’re guaranteed to have some minimum amount of uncertainty, and therefore chaos is guaranteed to amplify it and wipe out our large-scale predictions.
This vaguely reminds me of uncertainty principles—both involve a finite amount of information available in a system, where the more you know about one aspect, the less you know about all the others—but I don’t know how to make the resemblance precise or whether it’s actually relevant to chaos theory.
The usual way the uncertainty principle comes in is that we’re guaranteed to have some minimum amount of uncertainty, and therefore chaos is guaranteed to amplify it and wipe out our large-scale predictions.