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- From: onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam)
- Subject: Help! I am caught in a strange attractor!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.222032.3155@hsr.no>
- Sender: news@hsr.no
- Organization: Rogaland University Centre
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:20:32 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- Lately I have been drawing a phase-space diagram over my day-rythm, and it was
- schocking. Normally the 24-hour cycle is a very strong attractor. But in my
- rythm it seems to be completely absent! I have periods of normal rythmic
- behaviour, and then suddenly -bang- my rythm becomes totally chaotic. I do not
- yet have sufficient data to draw a conclusion, but it seems "slightly"
- disordered, maybe even governed by a a strange attractor! :)
-
-
- ^24h
- |
- |
- | x x
- | x
- | x x
- |
- | x
- | x x
- | x x
- | 24h
- |_______________________>
- "normal" rythm centering around two points on the 24-hour line
-
- x
- ^
- |
- | x x
- | x x x
- |
- | x
- | x x
- | x x
- | x x x x
- | x
- |_________________________>
- My rythm. Completely havoc.
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- Onar.
-
- "Now I lay me down to sleep, pray the lord my soul to keep. If I die before I
- wake, pray the lord my soul to take."
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