Is the Butterfly Effect Real?
You've probably heard about the Butterfly Effect a butterfly flaps it's wings in Brazil and causes a hurricane in Texas. Premise ridiculous! Of course they can't. There are millions of butterflies, if every one caused the beginnings of a storm Earth would be in chaos. The thing is, that's not what the Butterfly Effect is about. It's about how tiny changes in big systems, can have complex results. Systems, in this case, could be anything from weather patterns, to how big groups of asteroids move, or how lots of people interact. For an example of a system: picture a Tilt If you don't know what that is: it's a rotating and shifting platform, with shell each rotating on a smaller circle, with people inside. It has rules, and follows those rules rigidly: the platform rotates the same every time, and the carts can only rotate around specific points By analyzing this, you can see the butterfly effect in action. If I sit alone in one of the tilt than if you sat in ...