Butterfly Effect?

Question

I heard a friend talk about it but he did not explain it what is it?

Answer 1

I basically means that every action has a reaction and that everything is effected by everything else even if it is by a very small amount. The name comes from the idea that something so small as a butterfly flapping its wings could cause a chain of events that could end in a hurricane on the other side of the world.

Answer 2

It's to do with chaos theory. In simple terms, a small change in the input to a chaotic system can cause a huge difference to the output. The 'butterfly effect' relates this to weather, and says that a butterfly flapping it's wings will move some air, which pushes on other air and so on, and could end up making the difference as to whether a hurricane occurs somewhere else. Another way of thinking about it would be to consider a set of scales with a heavy weight on each side. If the butterfly landed on one side then it could tip the balance one way, or it could land the other side and tip it the other way. Only if the butterfly landed exactly in the middle would the scales remain balanced.

Terry Pratchet wrote about a creature called something like the 'Hurricane Butterfly' in one of the Discworld books. It had evolved a defence mechanism of causing hurricanes if it was threatened/attacked.

Answer 3

The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. This is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.

The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately cause a tornado to appear (or, for that matter, prevent a tornado from appearing). The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different.

Recurrence, the approximate return of a system towards its initial conditions, together with the sensitive dependence on initial conditions are the two main ingredients for chaotic motion. They have the practical consequence of making complex systems, such as the weather, difficult to predict past a certain time range (approximately a week in the case of weather)

Answer 4

this is referred to as the Butterfly result, because of the fact a chinese language Chaos theory, prevalent because of the fact the Butterfly result, states that "the skill of a butterflies wings may well be felt on the different edge of the international." which ability something fairly minor like a butterfly flapping its wings, might desire to bring about like a tsunami a approaches away, and that each thing is proper. that's particularly plenty what the action picture is approximately. The slightest substitute finally ends up changing each thing.

Answer 5

This is a really old thing. Someone tried to explain how small events can lead to much bigger things happening. For example, a butterfly fluttering it's wings can start off a change in air movement that could start a hurricane hundreds of miles away.

Answer 6

It refers to how everything is interconnected and an apparently small event starts an infinite chain reaction. Has to do with the balance of the universe. Not a weird theory at all if you think about how every planet's gravity is in perfect balance with the other planets to stop them colliding with each other...

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Movie about nothing should have happened. Basically you are watching nothing in the movie