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2006-04-04

Sci/Tech: Chaos=Order: Physicists make baffling discovery


Chaos=Order: Physicists make baffling discovery from PhysOrg.com

"Da police are not here to create disorder; dere here to preserve disorder." -Richard J. Daley, Chicago mayor, explaining to the media the role of the police during the riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Police keep order. That's why, for example, they issue tickets for "disturbing the peace." Thus the only logical conclusion to Mayor Daley's famous quote above – other than dismissing it as the result of a tangled tongue – is sometimes disorder spawns order. Sounds impossible, right? Wrong.
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