[isthisnickcool]

Here is a graphic of one theory. I call it the plumbers butt theory.

[smith288]

Physics has as much to do about the economy as Sean Penn has to do with international affairs.

I call it "Naked Crusty the Clown laying in bed"

[Gorzaloon]

http://www.rittmeister.com/_images/chaos.gif

Usually I am a scoffer and debunker, but in any nonlinear complex system, attractors can appear. But I am puzzled as to his statement that earthquakes are harder to predict than stock markets, because earthquakes do not have the human element of mob/panic/stampede psychology.

Order can emerge from seeming chaos, but probably not the kind that will let someone buy a new hot "IBM" for a dollar.