In daily life, theLorenzian quality of sensitive dependence on initial conditions lurkseverywhere. A man leaves the house in the morning thirty seconds late, aflowerpot misses his head by a few millimeters, and then he is run over by atruck. Or, less dramatically, he misses a bus that runs every ten minutes—hisconnection to a train that runs every hour. Small perturbations in one’s dailytrajectory can have large consequences. A batter facing a pitched ball knows thatapproximately the same swing will not give approximately the same result,baseball being a game of inches. Science, though—science was different. Chaos: Making a New Science