Nonchaotic model reveals how predictability can emerge from seemingly unpredictable dynamics

Predicting a system's final outcome from its initial state is the ultimate goal for many physicists. In certain complex systems, however, this goal is thwarted by chaos, where even the subtlest tweaks to the initial state can lead to completely different fates, making the system almost impossible to predict. In research published in Nature Communications , Illinois physicists developed a model showing that unpredictability can also arise in nonchaotic systems.

Predicting a system's final outcome from its initial state is the ultimate goal for many physicists. In certain complex systems, however, this goal is thwarted by chaos, where even the subtlest tweaks to the initial state can lead to completely different fates, making the system almost impossible to predict.

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