Matt Kielty

And then just, it's a blip from then on.

Like it just crashes and then it never comes back.

It's like Rome rises, things are gonna be on top of the world forever.

And then the barbarians come in and they're like, oh, hell no, it's Germany now.

Right, right, right.

And he watches this play out in this barrel for over six years, waiting for the harmony.

And he just never stops.

It never came.

No line, no circle.

In this nutshell of a small ecosystem, nature is chaos, chaos, chaos.

What Reinhardt had discovered in this barrel was that this tiny ecosystem, when left to its own devices, was completely chaotic.

So what does that mean mean?

Like, is that saying it's just booming and busting at random or does that mean?

Well, so.

This is Elisa Beninka.

Reinhart brought her in to analyze his data.

And she says the way to think about chaos is not whether it's random or not, but to what extent we can predict what's going to happen.

After that, they're no better than you or I trying to predict the weather.

Huh.

So it's not like, you know, things are just happening completely randomly for no reason whatsoever.