Gas Chamber
Construct a simple system: take a box, a simple solid rectangular solid. Within this box, place a gaseous substance. Heat the box, sit back, and watch. What happens to the gas? Everyone knows that warm gases rise while cooler gases sink; and initially, the portions of the gas closest to the walls of the box will become heated and rise. At certain temperatures, the gas will begin to form cylindrical rolls spaced like jelly rolls lying lengthwise in the box. On one side of the box, the gas rises, and on the other, it sinks; the rising gases move to one side and carry warmer gases up with them; as the gas cools, it falls on the other side of the box. With a regularly applied temperature, a smooth box interior, and a system completely closed with regards to the gas itself, it might be expected that the circular motion of the moving gas should be regular and predictable. Nature, however, is neither regular nor predictable. It turns out that the motion of the gas is chaotic. The rolls do not simply roll around and around in one direction like a steam-roller; they roll for a while in one direction, and then stop and reverse directions. Then, seemingly at random, the gas reverses direction again; these changes continue at unpredictable times, at unpredictable speeds.
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