Originally posted by barrk
Too bad about the book...it really is his best. It explains chaos pretty well if you can slough through it and it was much better than the movie!
I thought that Creighton rather missed the point about feedback in engineering (i.e. you don't just set your steam engine to rev at 500 rpm or whatever by setting up the pressure, rate of fuel burn etc - you adjust it dynamically depending on output - that's why chaos is not a big problem in closed engineering systems or indeed in Zoos like JP).