In the real world, there
are three very good examples of instability: disease, political unrest, and
family and community dysfunction. Disease is unstable because at any moment
there could be an outbreak of some deadly disease for which there is no cure. This
would cause terror and chaos. Political unrest is very unstable because people
can revolt, throw over the government and create a vast war. A war is another
type of a chaotic system. Family and community dysfunction is also unstable because
if you have a very tiny problem with a few people or a huge problem with many
people, the outcome will be huge with many people involved and many people's
lives in ruin. Chaos is also found in systems as complex as electric circuits,
measles outbreaks, lasers, clashing gears, heart rhythms, electrical brain
activity, circadian rhythms, fluids, animal populations, and chemical
reactions, and in systems as simple as the pendulum. It also has been thought
possibly to occur in the stock market.