Chaos Theory in Physics is the idea that there can be stable conditions that can go round and round without ever repeating the same precise pattern twice. The weather is an example: it does the same sorts of things every year but is never perfectly identical to previous. The weather has been stuck in a pattern of gales driven by a jet stream somewhere above the northern UK. Hopefully something will happen to disrupt this current stable pattern of bad weather, In terms of Physics, you'd say that the weather would be nudged into a different strange attractor. 20 years ago New Scientist did a lovely piece about Chaos Theory and football in time for Euro 96. Saturday's game at Morecambe was in this vein. The first half was stable pressure from Oxford. Morecambe made early substitutions to try to push the play from that strange attractor. They moved Ellison to the other side of the pitch and even brought off their goal scorer. It worked. After half time, the game settled into long ball and Oxford looked rattled. Michael Appleton made some changes and suddenly Oxford were playing through the middle again, running out 4 - 2 winners. Chaos Science is also called Complexity. There are so many variables but we look for stable states and study how to move from one to another. The article is here if you want to pay to read it in full
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15020333-800-chaos-pitch/
