Phase space application

Phase space has an important application in understanding your heartbeat.

• The millions of cells that make up your heart are continually contracting and relaxing separately as part of an intricate chaotic system with complicated attractors.
• The millions of cells must work in sync to produce a healthy heartbeat.
• The intricate state of synchronization is an attractor of the system.
• In fibrillation, the cells constantly contract and relax in the wrong sequence. A defibrillator device gives the chaotic system an electric jolt to move it back to the healthy heartbeat attractor.