Shen Siwen stared at Lü Yongchang's retreating back. He opened his mouth, but not a single word came out.
Ever since their days on Earth, he had devoted his life to researching artificial biospheres.
Over the past few decades, to better regulate the surface city clusters, he had also led his researchers in studying urban climate models.
He therefore knew perfectly well that the planetary climate chaos model and an urban climate model were on entirely different levels of difficulty.
If he had to compare them, it was like the difference between basic arithmetic-addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division-and advanced mathematics.
In his private office in Shipboard Laboratory No. 1, Lü Yongchang gazed at the slowly rotating projection of Dawn Star before him, deep in thought.
During his earlier "overclocking," he had gained a deeper understanding of the planetary climate chaos model.
Chaotic systems had many characteristics.
Nonlinearity, apparent randomness, irregularity, extreme sensitivity to initial conditions...
Thus, chaotic behavior within a chaotic system appeared irregular, yet concealed its own distinctive patterns.
Chaotic behavior within a chaotic system followed several principles.
First, energy always followed the path of least resistance.
Second, an underlying structure always existed, though it was usually invisible, and this structure determined the path of least resistance.
Third, this ever-present but usually invisible underlying structure could not only be discovered, but also changed.
These three principles constantly governed chaotic behavior and influenced the chaotic system's final output.
The so-called butterfly effect was the most straightforward explanation of a chaotic system.
Roughly speaking, the butterfly effect meant that a butterfly living in Earth's Amazon Rainforest might occasionally flap its wings a few times, causing corresponding changes in the air around it and generating faint air currents.
Those faint currents would then cause changes in the surrounding air.
The process