Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died
I dwell on chaos theory. I don't think its significance has been properly absorbed by the public consciousness yet. There's something simultaneously liberating and unsettling about it.For instance I'm often conscious that it's a mathematical near certainty that if I'd done anything different in my earlier years, absolutely anything at all, then my children would not exist, and therefore I cannot bring myself to regret anything I ever did. Conversely it's unnerving to consider how unlikely my own existence is in the first place.Also, since appreciating chaos theory, I can no longer enjoy any movie involving time travel.