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“CHAOS: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” -- Edward Lorenz

Welcome to CHAOS Industries’ tech blog, a place to discuss the “Approximate Future” where all things are possible.

The above quote by Lorenz refers to chaos theory, one of the most important theories of the 20^th century. Chaos theory lays out a foundation mathematically proving that some phenomena are so inherently nonlinear that the exact future can never be predicted regardless of how well their present state is known.

We would all like to believe that we can harvest our knowledge of the present to predict how the future will develop. But although we might think we know the present well, our understanding of the world is approximate; we cannot measure every detail with absolute precision. In a chaotic system, the error between what we predict will happen and what really happens grows exponentially with time. Those inescapable approximations about today, even if they are vanishingly small, preclude us from precisely predicting tomorrow.

One great example of a chaotic problem is weather prediction. Chaos is why prediction of the weather over the next ten days is significantly more difficult – and inherently less accurate – than predicting tomorrow’s weather. When Edward Lorenz discovered chaos, he was in fact a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

To those who expect the world we inhabit to behave predictably, the existence of chaos may sound discouraging. At CHAOS Industries (CHAOS), we have a different perspective. Chaos theory, we note, led physicists to build new tools to understand and manage complex systems. These tools and ideas lead to breakthroughs in areas including quantum physics and statistical mechanics.

In a similar way, we at CHAOS believe that navigating through our deterministic but highly nonlinear world demands new approaches but offers enormous payoffs. We are charting our course through the approximate future with our combined strengths of curiosity, adaptability, and exceptional technical experience. . We believe that it is our people, leaning into these strengths, who set us apart and who will enable us to get us there.

As the Chief Technology Officer at CHAOS Industries, I am proud of the team we have built since our creation in 2022. We have architected a company that includes employees with many notable accomplishments. These accomplishments include:

• Work by our engineers on three of the most powerful phased array systems on earth and discovered the fundamental energy limits of phased arrays (g)
• Expertise cited on the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice (Reference 55 and 56, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1999/zewail/lecture/)
• Engineering credentials on the winning Watson AI team that beat humans at JEOPARDY (C)
• Service as former US Government leaders from elite Pentagon teams including the US Navy Seals, DARPA, etc.
• Service by our Executives in the Administrations of three US Presidents

I am inviting our CHAOS experts to share their experiences, challenge conventional thinking, and prove that the expertise needed to solve some of defense technology's most difficult problems already exists. We also have the great fortune to have an advisory board guiding us that includes some of the most experienced and decorated US military generals, chief engineers, manufacturing experts and CEOs, and we will share their input as well.

We invite you to join us on this journey. Let’s sort through the chaos and define the approximate future together.