From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-04-23T04:55:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

> With the starting conditions and the correct model a chaotic system
> can be predicted because it is fundamentally deterministic.
> With the starting conditions and a set of experimental data the model
> is derivable from observation, given sufficient observations.
> Without the starting conditions, all bets are off.

The solution to Zeno's Paradox is the "infinitesmals" concept. Your 
paragraph misunderstands the Butterfly Effect. The Effect means that the 
deterministic prediction is always impossible because the starting 
conditions are always infinitesmal.

Put another way, the only "correct model" is the entire universe, and we are 
within it, so we can't use a model, and must look at trends.