Weather is an example of a chaotic system, and "chaos" here has a precise scientific meaning.
C. Perkins Each word has both common and scientific meanings.
Of course this is the scientific meaning of the words.
As such, there is no single universally-agreed scientific meaning of the word "matter."
It sounds terrible but is completely without scientific meaning.
Protecting the earth and its atmosphere has all kinds of moral, social, political, scientific meanings, but it won't happen until economic decisions are accepted.
Sometimes, an apparently unambiguous question may turn out to have alternative scientific meanings.
Wellness (medicine) - The scientific meaning: health, freedom from disease.
It has no scientific meaning and nothing to do with the Northern lights.
However, the word has no commonly accepted technical or scientific meaning.