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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant blue-green planet whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has a problem, which is this: most of the people living on it are unhappy for pretty much most of the time. Many solutions have been suggested for this problem, but most of these are largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it isn’t the small green pieces of paper that are unhappy. And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad idea, and that no one should have ever left the oceans. And then, one Friday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a young man sitting on his own in the restaurant that he worked at in Barrie Ontario suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and he finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. The time was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before he could tell anyone about it, or get to a phone and call someone, a terrible and stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever. This is not his story. But this is the story of the catastrophe and some of its consequences.
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The 3-D Image of the Rossler Attractor used here and elsewhere was created by Prof. Paul Bourke of the Swinburne University of Technology.
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