So mixing is a chaotic process.

Chaos is overturning our comfortable assumptions about how the world

works. Nature's chaos is bound by rules. Science tended to ignore events or phenomena that seemed
random. Not so. There are simple laws right under our noses- laws governing disease epidemics, or heart
attacks, or plagues of locusts. One of the first to be discovered occurs in the dripping tap. Remember that
a tap can drip rhythmically or chaotically. In a mathematical model, this process continues indefinitely,
with rhythmic groups of 16, 32, 64 drops, and so on. This scenario for the creation of chaos is called a
period-doubling cascade. Mitchell Feigenbaum discovered that a particular number. The number is
roughly 4.669, and it ranks alongside ℼ (pi). Feigenbaum's number has a symbol, too: The Greek letter δ
(delta). Feigenbaum's number δ tells us how the period of the drips relates to the rate of flow of the water.
One that we can see only through the eyes of chaos; a quantitative pattern, a number, emerges from a
qualitative phenomenon. Chaos is not random: it is apparently random behavior resulting from precise
rules. Chaos is a cryptic form of order. Chaos makes it much easier to respond quickly to an outside
stimulus. Living creatures, too, must behave chaotically in order to respond rapidly to a changing
environment. They call it chaotic control. Basically, the idea is to make the butterfly effect work for you.