Order and Chaos

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Chaos is the opposite of control or orderliness. I like to make order out of chaos, which seems strange to people I have met and come to know over the span of my life so far. You understand why there are laws enforced by law enforcement officers locally and the military on a global scale. If we lived in a world without law and order, the entire world would go into chaos and there would be thousands of diverse groups and people trying to take over the world.

In respect to how chaos played out in educational institutions during Covid-19 is one of the examples of how the problems resolve in teaching students. Fortunately, there are a higher number of schools and colleges that were already teaching online but also supporting the traditional classroom setting. International students in the United States struggled during the pandemic. The findings reveal a sense of chaos, an aversion to online instruction, a lack of non-academic support form institutions, and a tarnished, but still attractive image of the US as a destination for study abroad.[1]

To summarize other problems areas within higher education, there are cases of how the pandemic caused problems of race and equity. The resources online were not as readily available to minorities during Covid-19, and teachers could not focus well on providing those students similarly as in a traditional classroom setting.[2] Before the pandemic in person teacher to student interaction made it easier to consider giving everyone individually the best learning process.

To also abridge, in the movie ‘Jurassic Park’ based on the book written by Michael Crichton, the character played by Jeff Goldblum, he is a chaos theorist. As the infrastructure of the park started breaking down, he was put right into the middle of chaos generated by the dinosaurs for survival, thus getting the most difficult lesson considering his work.[3] We’ll dive deep into what chaos theory means and how it affects different internal structures and people of the world.

The idea of chaos theory is how an event, such how one thing, such as the destruction of twin towers in New York caused chaos worldwide and even minutely affected time. It is like when a butterfly flaps its wings in China, the affects can cause a thunderstorm in a large metropolis of the United States, which is a thought of how the theory works. Most mainstream discussion of chaos theory has attempted to help people understand it by breaking it down into ultra-digestible Pablum. The folly is that we are doing to chaos theory exactly what the theory warns us against.[4]

Even in the ancient practices of Eastern philosophy and religion, exploring the intricate relationship between chaos theory and Buddhist teachings reveals profound insights into the nature of causality and existence, motivating readers to delve deeper into these complex ideas.[5] The butterfly effect as mentioned earlier is just a small part of it, but the complexity of mathematical models, such as the oscillation and waves of particles in physics and electricity. The static produced by dissonance frequencies is another form of chaos, as represented by the theory.

Specific fields of technology like Terahertz semiconductor chaos. Chaos characterized by its irregularity and high sensitivity to initial conditions finds various applications in secure optical communications, random number generations, light detection and ranging systems, etc.[6]

Like I had mentioned in my writings before, the dichotomous nature of our world and universe is full of both structured chaos and order. Fractals are an infinite orderliness of patterns as seen in nature. It is the Golden spiral as seen in art or a conch shell. The pattern of sunflowers seeds in a sunflower.

The chaotic twist of wind into a vortex within a tornado that destroys everything in its path is a prime example. Lightning with its chaotic charge, as seen by Nikola Tesla as a thing of beauty, is like the pattern of neural networks of our brain.

My mind at times has been in a chaotic state, as I am sure also in the minds of thousands if not billions of people.

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[1] Ghazarian, Peter G., Babita Bhandari, and Shuoyu Chen. “”it can be Chaos here” International Student Experiences of U.S. Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, vol. 15, no. 1, 2023, pp. 33-44. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/can-be-chaos-here-international-student/docview/2890009036/se-2.

[2] Anton, Mary, Lee Teitel, and Tamisha Williams. “Virtual Networks Follow Paths to Equity.” Learning Professional, vol. 42, no. 1, 2021, pp. 36-39. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/virtual-networks-follow-paths-equity/docview/2540415803/se-2.

[3] Charland, William. “There’s Chaos at Workplace, Expert Says: [Final Edition].” The Ottawa Citizen, Oct 16, 1993, pp. J6; WORKLIFE. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/theres-chaos-at-workplace-expert-says/docview/239808682/se-2.

[4] MIKE SHAHIN, Ottawa C. “Trying to make Sense of the CHAOS Theory; some Think the Essence of Chaos Theory is the Story about the Butterfly that Flaps its Wings in Beijing and Causes a Thunderstorm in New York. Alas, it’s Not that Simple: [Final Edition].” Edmonton Journal, Jun 26, 1994, pp. C3. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/trying-make-sense-chaos-theory-some-think-essence/docview/252024848/se-2.

[5] Win, David T. “Kamma and Chaos Theory (Complexity Science).” ABAC Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2008. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/kamma-chaos-theory-complexity-science/docview/2384083409/se-2.

[6] Liu, Binbin, et al. Terahertz Semiconductor Laser Chaos. , Ithaca, 2024. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/working-papers/terahertz-semiconductor-laser-chaos/docview/3121793339/se-2