Measuring Chaos in the Browser: a 0.057 Difference, Gone in 7 Seconds
"Chaotic" gets thrown around loosely, so I made it a number. The LK Forge physics labs run real integrators in the browser, so I took the exact engines behind two of them — the double pendulum and the bifurcation diagram — and measured how fast order becomes unpredictability. Every number below is computed by a dependency-free script that copies the simulators' own code, so it's fully…
The study measured chaos in two ways: via a double pendulum simulator and the logistic map. Both systems displayed exponential divergence from initial nudge differences, with the double pendulum losing synchronization after about 7 seconds while the logistic map became chaotic at a specific growth rate.
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