Certainly, the behavior of the drops is deterministic; laws of classical physics guarantee that they will fall and that their mass and rate of speed in falling will lie within certain boundaries. We cannot, however, solve the equations that would enable accurate predictions of when, where, and how the drops will fall.32 As both Lorenz and Shaw demonstrated, with a chaotic dynamical system there are too many variables for which we cannot account, no matter how precise our instruments are.33 Hence deterministic chaos.p9