| Title | Chaotic Neutrality |
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| Contributor | David H. Silver(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0526.48 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526/chapters/10.11647/obp.0526.48 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | David H. Silver |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2026-04-08 |
| Long abstract | Deterministic systems can exhibit chaotic behavior, where minuscule differences in initial conditions lead to drastically different outcomes over time. The double pendulum and the three-body gravitational problem exemplify that this phenomenon can happen despite having few components and simple governing equations. Counterintuitively, billions of times more complex physical systems like falling objects often display predictable behavior. This is because dissipative effects continuously suppress perturbations. |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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David H. Silver is an industrial researcher whose career bridges computer vision, computational biology, and science communication. He studied mathematics, computer science, and biology at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology as a Rothschild Scholar, and was awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship for his doctoral work in computational biology at Cambridge, UK. Silver’s peer-reviewed publications span multiple domains: computational biology in Nature and PNAS; computer vision systems in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; medical AI in Human Reproduction and MIDL; and entertainment analysis in PLoS One. He holds over a dozen patents in depth sensing, medical imaging, and generative AI. His industry positions include Algorithm Engineer at Intel Corporation, ML Researcher at Apple, and CTO/co-founder roles at several technology startups. Silver maintains academic collaborations with researchers worldwide and serves as a peer reviewer for Image and Vision Computing and PNAS.