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<\/a>But sooner or later \u2014 we all get shaken. There are only five causes of turbulence, and they all reduce to one concept \u2014 Chaos. The first is associated with storm clouds \u2014 the anticipated obstacles on a chosen route. They are not terrifying, they do not look dangerous; they resemble entrance exams at a faculty of stress resistance. Pilots ask passengers to fasten their belts in advance, psychologists recommend breathing exercises, and lawyers advise reading contracts closely, especially the small-print footnotes. That is how one most effectively mitigates or prevents the consequences of shaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second cause of turbulence in the air is atmospheric fronts, or rather the places where they meet. These are collisions of ideas, systems, and values. And although the pilots who guide us through reality know the aircraft will soon enter this zone, we still see family scandals, clashes between supporters, and revolutions. Rivers flow downstream, and a waterfalls fall from above \u2014 welcome to the whirlpool of events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mountain ranges are the third cause \u2014 more precisely, not the mountains themselves but the airflows that rise along their slopes and later drift down to their usual altitudes. The snow-capped peaks are already behind, beautiful especially from above; the plains have spread out like a carpet below \u2014 and then, all of a sudden, the plane starts to shake. An argument has ended, but hurtful words keep echoing in the mind; an important decision seems made, yet the inertia of old habits delays its implementation and continues to rock the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most dangerous one though is clear-air turbulence or CAT for short. This predatory little \u201ccat\u201d appears utterly suddenly, when everything seems perfectly calm \u2014 sunlight is pouring through the windows, the passenger in 13B has dozed off over a book, the trolleys are already rolling down the aisle with fish or chicken \u2014 and at that instant the aeroplane drops sharply. Someone screams, someone else starts praying, a third person quickly switches on their phone camera, and God forbid the oxygen masks do not automatically drop, because then panic is inevitable. CAT is the betrayal of clarity; such shocks assail us constantly \u2014 an unexpected diagnosis, redundancy, betrayal. A terrorist attack\u2026 War\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nobel laureate Richard Feynman called turbulence the most important unsolved problem of classical physics. Studies by teams of scientists have shown that the level of dangerous turbulence over the North Atlantic has increased by 55% in the last 40 years. In public life the figure is noticeably higher; the planet is being shaken even harder than a Boeing on final approach to Paro airport. Chaos has become the basis of the world order, and no scientist, no politician can currently suggest a way to escape it. We have lost the pilots who knew how to avoid shocks. The only advice on offer is to tighten your seatbelt and press yourself into your seat in terror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n