The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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- 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.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.3 | Hey, everybody, Chuck here, and welcome to our sciencey playlist. |
| 0:08.7 | Super excited about this one. |
| 0:10.6 | And I'm going to kick it off, everybody, with this episode on how chaos theory changed the universe. |
| 0:18.2 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How StuffWorks.com. |
| 0:27.9 | Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry over there. |
| 0:34.6 | So this is Stuff You Should Know, the podcast about chaos theory. |
| 0:40.3 | Have you ever seen Event Horizon? |
| 0:43.3 | Uh, I did. Not bad. |
| 0:45.5 | Great movie. Are you crazy? |
| 0:47.0 | I don't think it was great. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, it was so imaginative. I thought it was okay. |
| 0:50.6 | It was like a lovecraftian thing in outer space. Yeah. Loved it. It was all right. I loved it. Yeah. I liked it. That's what I think of when I think of chaos. You know, there's that one part where they kind of give you like a glimpse behind like the dimension that this action is taking place in to see the chaos underneath. |
| 1:12.2 | Oh, I should check that out again. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah, I think you should. |
| 1:15.2 | I think about Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum as the creep, Dr. Malcolm, explaining chaos in the little auto auto driving SUV or whatever that was. |
| 1:31.2 | Right. |
| 1:31.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.0 | That's why it was called in the script, the auto driving SUV scene. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.3 | And you know what? |
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