At the same time, accepting a measu

At the same time, accepting a measure of randomness within a unified narrative does not mean reading without a purpose. When scientists study the most chaotic of systems—turbulence, for example—by using models outside of conventional forms, they can still find patterns within apparently arbitrary movement. While they cannot predict the path of specific molecules in an agitated liquid, they can see a discernible order. In these instances phenomena called strange attractors define the flux. These strange attractors stabilize chaotic systems, keeping them from expanding into infinity. If I trace the paths of various objects in the chaotic system, I find that, while they never occupy the same position twice, they remain within fixed boundaries and maintain orbits in a nonperiodic, or irregular, fashion. This is because, as Stephen H. Kellert notes, strange attractors reconcile the apparently contradictory effects of these objects.10 Although strange attractors arc not discernible through conventional scientific procedures, chaos/complexity theory proclaims their existence through the pattern that emerges from infinite paths moving within a confined space.