There’s another story, one that has gone untold for half a century. It is quite literally a textbook case for how the numerical experiments that modern science has come to rely on - in fields ranging from climate science to ecology to astrophysics - can uncover hidden truths about nature.īut in fact, Lorenz was not the one running the machine. Lorenz, “the father of chaos,” started a scientific revolution on the LGP-30. Before long, Jeff Goldblum, playing the chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, was pausing, stammering and charming his way through lines about the unpredictability of nature in Jurassic Park.Īll told, it’s a neat narrative.
Then chaos went mainstream with the publication of James Gleick’s Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987. Scientists soon encountered other unpredictable natural systems that looked random even though they weren’t: the rings of Saturn, blooms of marine algae, Earth’s magnetic field, the number of salmon in a fishery. When visualized in a certain way, they seemed to prowl around a shape called a strange attractor.Ībout a decade later, chaos theory started to catch on in scientific circles. But Lorenz also found that these unpredictable outcomes weren’t quite random, either. This sensitivity to initial conditions, later popularized as the butterfly effect, made predicting the far future a fool’s errand. In 1961, having programmed a set of equations into the computer that would simulate future weather, he found that tiny differences in starting values could lead to drastically different outcomes. Can Wolf 8 protect his valley without harming his protégé? Authored by a renowned wolf researcher and gifted storyteller, The Rise of Wolf 8 marks the beginning of an original and bold new trilogy, which will transform our view of wolves forever.The story of chaos is usually told like this: Using the LGP-30, Lorenz made paradigm-wrecking discoveries. But soon he faces a new opponent: his adopted son, who mates with a violent alpha female. An unusually young alpha male, barely a teenager in human years, Wolf 8 rises to the occasion, hunting skillfully, and even defending his family from the wolf who killed his father. Wolf 8 struggles at first-he is smaller than the other pups, and often bullied-but soon he bonds with an alpha female whose mate was shot. This is the incredible true story of one of those wolves. Decades later, the rangers brought them back, with the first wolves arriving from Canada in 1995. *Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves-but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Rise of wolf 8 : witnessing the triumph of Yellowstone's underdog
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