Scientists understand how small changes in initial conditions can have huge effects on the outcome of events.
In complex systems, the slightest variation in initial conditions can create large deviations in future system conditions over time and not necessarily in predictable ways.
Of course, this scaremongering is always a charade, a Kabuki play with the outcome predetermined by the initial conditions: The Debt Limit will be raised.
Such models can reproduce all the characteristics of a standard big bang universe in a natural way, without the extra premise of inflation and its special initial conditions.
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The definition of a chaotic system I use is any system in which a tiny change in initial conditions can lead to a large change in results.
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The current mood in the country against continuing to increase the national debt 67 percent oppose raising the debt ceiling provides a golden opportunity to change the initial conditions on federal borrowing.
Simply put, a chaotic system is one whose final state is extremely sensitive to the initial conditions: if you change the beginning a little, you change the end a lot.
This approach is described as a "passive" system because once initial conditions are set inside the flask, a continuing presence of helium and good insulation is all that is required to maintain those conditions.
The reason the debt limit fails to limit both spending and borrowing is the initial conditions established in federal law predetermine the outcome by making an increase in the debt ceiling and more borrowing virtually inevitable.
While to state that initial conditions on the extent of global integration are vastly different at the outset of Bretton Woods in 1946 and today is an understatement, the direction of regulatory changes have many common features.
If in the process of raising the debt limit the initial conditions are also not changed, the outcome will remain predetermined the next time the country approaches the debt limit a lot of sound and fury amounting to nothing followed by a vote to raise the debt ceiling and get on about the business of spending more money than we have.
Emerging Asia, as with the rest of emerging markets, has fared better than the developed markets after the 2008 crisis in part due to better initial starting conditions.
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It is in fact our military campaign that has set the conditions for initial reconciliation discussions that we hope will begin taking place.
Despite the tough conditions and the initial objections of her family, Dow decided to pursue a career in law following advice from one of her teachers.
It has not called into serious doubt the bank's initial anti-inflationary zeal economic conditions are improving and national governments currently favour macroeconomic stringency but rather it has damaged the bank's credibility as an independent entity for a time when conditions turn less favourable.
While the initial penalties are relatively modest and for only three conditions heart failure, pneumonia, and heart attacks they will gradually stiffen.
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It cites graduated driver licensing systems in which teens' abilities to drive are expanded over time from the initial stages, when driving is restricted to low-risk conditions.
The initial euphoria around the bacteriophage as a means of combating what had been incurable conditions subsided and the virus was all but forgotten.
He said that it is often the case that an initial influx of donations is not followed up with the detailed work to improve overall conditions.
Initial findings indicate that the substance appears to be effective in the treatment of certain medical conditions and the control of agricultural pests.
Back then, the report was seen as an initial check on whether the U.S. military surge was reducing violence enough to create conditions for political progress.
After an initial evaluation, your doctor may refer you to a doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that affect the brain and nervous system (neurologist).
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