Complex situation comes to Nashua

“We once thought that if you just found the right simple rules and wrote them down, you would know everything, how everything would work. That’s clearly no longer the world view,” Buck said. “In an enormous number of fields, (scientists) are trying to distinguish which phenomena are the ones that are chaotic – and if so, how closely or for how long you can describe them – and which phenomena are linear ones, predictable ones.”