Template:Are You Sure/April 16

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"Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow" is a 1963 paper by mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz published in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. The paper was influential in the early development of chaos theory.

• ... that a United States Air Force Mark 15 nuclear bomb remains lost somewhere in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, following a mid-air collision on February 5, 1958?

• ... that meteorologist Edward Lorenz's discovery of deterministic chaos "profoundly influenced a wide range of basic sciences and brought about one of the most dramatic changes in mankind’s view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton," according to the committee that awarded Lorenz the 1991 Kyoto Prize for basic sciences in the field of earth and planetary sciences?