Episode
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
Stuff You Should Know · Jun 19, 2026 · 55 min
Since the age of Descartes, science has put all of its eggs in the basket of determinism, the idea that with accurate enough measurements any aspect of the universe could be predicted. But the universe, it turns out, is not so tidy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.