The nature of their branching is fractal in nature. The system is divided so efficiently that in most tissues, no cell is ever more than 3 or 4 cells away from a blood vessel and still it only takes 5% of body space.

Blood vessels from aorta to capillaries form a continuum. They branch and divide and they branch again until they become so narrow that blood cells are forced to slide through in a single file.

This underscores that physical systems can be completely deterministic and yet still be inherently unpredictable even in the absence of quantum effects. The shape of the Lorenz attractor itself, when plotted graphically, may also be seen to resemble a butterfly.

In popular media the 'butterfly effect' stems from the real-world implications of the Lorenz attractor, i.e. that in any physical system, in the absence of perfect knowledge of the initial conditions (even the minuscule disturbance of the air due to a butterfly flapping its wings), our ability to predict its future course will always fail.

When creating the first computers, Von Neumenn had overlooked the possibility of chaos, with instability at every point.

Global Atmospheric Research Program was a fifteen-year international research programme led by the World Meteorological Organization and the International Council of Scientific Unions. It began in 1967. #meteorology #science

Laws of nature v/s Laws of Astronomy. #choas

Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist, established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology. #Chaos

Where chaos begins, classical science stops. Chaos poses problems that defy accepted ways of working in science. #chaos #sciencetwitter