attractor
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One who, or that which, attracts.
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History is a set of nested resonances with each epoch being shorter than the one that preceded it. This event horizon is like a series of ghost horizons, and once you enter into history, you enter into the outer shell of the temporal field of the attractor or the concrescence.
Violence is the great attractor of human history.
flowers are an attractor for bees
he was the biggest drawing card they had
An easy way to visualize a chaotic attractor is to start with a point in the basin of attraction of the attractor, and then simply plot its subsequent orbit.
Another well-known chaotic attractor is generated by the Rossler equations which have only one nonlinear term out of seven.