There are a thousand familiar disputes which reason can never decide. [A person’s] history is a thing hardly to be predicted, even from the completest knowledge of characteristics. For the tragedy of our lives is not created entirely from within. Chaos is the science of surprise, of the nonlinear and the unpredictable. While most traditional science deals with supposedly predictable phenomena like gravity, electricity, or chemical reactions, Chaos Theory deals with nonlinear things that are effectively impossible to predict or control, like turbulence, weather, the stock market, and people’s emotions.  A man can no more resist the impulse of fate than a wheelbarrow can the force of its driver. These phenomena are often described by fractal mathematics, which captures the infinite complexity of nature. Many natural objects exhibit fractal properties, including landscapes, clouds, trees, rivers, and many of the systems in which we live exhibit complex, chaotic behavior. There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. Destiny is too wise or too cruel for that.

Recognizing the chaotic behavior, fractal nature of our World can give us new insight, power, and wisdom. If the best me do not draw the great prizes in life, we know it has been so settled by the Ordainer of the lottery. Basically series of events seems like they are not connected and random, but they are not. Like how drilling for oil is causing more Earthquakes. It can be difficult to tell from data whether a physical or other observed process is random or chaotic, because in practice no time series consists of a pure signal. There will always be some form of corrupting noise, even if it is present as round off or truncation error. Thus any real time series, even if mostly deterministic, will contain some (pseudo) randomness. However, many events are actually orchestrated to look random, and the more you investigate them, you begin to see a pattern and notice that the events are connected. A great example of this Chaos Theory displayed in the film, Chaos, starring Ryan Phillippe; while weak souls are crushed by fortune, the brave mind maketh the fickle deity afraid of it.