Physics Week 7

“Ordered chaos”- does that sound familiar?

Ordered chaos in my life does sound familiar. My life is very chaotic and I barely have a second to myself. I am always on the go and have something I need to get done. I will have a plan for the day but then something unexpected will come up and I will have to deal with that. But although I live such a chaotic busy life and unexpected things come up I am able to keep it in order well and usually I am able to get everything done that I need to.

Fractals as patterns of complex systems

I was confused by fractals but they seemed to be complex mathematical equations trying to figure out different things, one being weather. They seem very complex but at the same time it sounds like they may be too complex. For example, with these so complex equations we cannot predict the weather accurately 6 days out, even though 400 million calculations are being done per second. This makes me think the calculations are trying to be very complex but they are not as accurate.

Consciousness out of chaos

I think this is an interesting topic. I think during chaos it can be very hard to be present and conscious. If I want to do this I have to be very focused on staying in the now. When I am focused on that I can be conscious but I can quickly forget I am doing that and go right back into the autopilot chaos. I think trying to stay in the now is something that is always good to work on.

Experiment- Screen Dimmer

I chose the screen dimmer experiment. I had to have my computer open 6 feet away and I was supposed to turn off the lights and look at the screen and then turn on the lights and look at what I saw. What I saw was that when I when I turned off the lights the screen dimmed. Then when I turned the lights back on the screen brightened up.