what is the butterfly affect in real life??

Question

want 2 know what it means

Answer 1

It simply refers to a saying that says that a motion as simple as a butterfly fluttering its wings can reverberate the air creating wind that can eventually grow to cause a hurricane through a series of small seemingly insignificant events. This of course can be translated to small things in real life that can turn into bigger problems when combined with the right ingredients.

Answer 2

The butterfly effect (not affect) is not proven has a physical process. The chance movement of air in Brazil will not cause a future change in the weather of France.

Now if you add humans into the mix, then the butterfly effect is entirely possible. Taking a left versus a right could have dire consequences if you happen to hit and kill the future president of the United States.

Answer 3

The butterfly effect is a consequence of a branch of maths called chaos theory. It says that a butterfly flapping its wings in Timbuktu can cause a tornado in Dallas. Weather is a non-linear phenomenon. Like pointing a gun at the American president. One little twitch of your finger can have big, unpredictable consequences. Or a sheep scratching its **** on a big boulder balanced at the top of a hill. A slight change in its position makes the difference between the boulder rolling through your bedroom or through an empty paddock. A guy named Kolmogorov showed in 1963 that the butterfly effect means that we'll never be able to deliver an accurate weather forecast more than about 3 weeks ahead, no matter how good our weather observations and computers.

Answer 4

It is a simplification of the basic principles of Chaos Theory, saying that the smallest actions can have devastating effects.

The Butterfly flaps his wings, and a hurricane occurs. If the butterfly hadn't flapped his wings, but everything else about the universe was the same, then the hurricane might not have occurred.

It says that the effects of any action can never be predicted, because they are too chaotic and random.

Answer 5

It means if you touch or move anything, it affects the entire future.

Answer 6

And it makes prediction of weather so complicated. Computers just don't have the power to compute all of these changes and we don't have a way of measuring all of these small variables.

Answer 7

Do you mean effect as in the movie?

Answer 8

predicting the future is very difficult

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect