July 25, 2014
#1399: Chaos explain
![Although the oral exam for the doctorate was just 'can you do that weird laugh?' Chaos](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chaos.png)
[Cueball is staring at a whiteboard covered with equations and graphs including a bifurcation diagram, a dragon curve and two connected Barnsley ferns.]
Cueball: For two decades, I’ve studied phase space, nonlinear equations, and strange attractors.
[Cueball keeps staring at a whiteboard covered with equations and graphs for two more panels before in the third panel he exclaims:]
Cueball: And there is nothing in here about dinosaurs escaping.