Dirty Chaos

I took a look at the list of the summer movies, a season which really runs from May to August, and it seems we're in for a rash of those 'dirty chaos' flicks that pit order vs. disorder and guess who gets to play the heavy? :(

Here's a list of the key offenders...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/

War of the Worlds - http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/

Star Wars - Episode iii - http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/

The message remains the same - when things go wrong - 'dirty chaos' ensues? What can be done to clear chaos' name, if anything? Do we just have to settle for using nonlinear dynamics as our alias? In fact, chaos theory has spawned so many nicknames and shorthand jargon, I'm not surprised the public just sticks with the first two dictionary defintions...

cha*os

1) A condition or place of great disorder or confusion 2) A disorderly mass; a jumble 3) The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe - I kind of dig this one :) 3a) Greek mythology ....the most ancient of gods .... the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe 4) A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions

Feedback Question: How would you shape the public perception of Chaos Theory?

With Turbulence, MRF 04.26