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Originally Posted by StuartD
The Butterfly Effect (no, not the movie one) is a very real concept... the tiniest thing we do today will have an effect on tomorrow... and next year and 100 years from now.
That tiny effect can easily be dismissed since it's so small, no matter when we start to question it, because it's always a tiny effect.
But it's still there and it's still adding up.
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The orogin of 'The Butterfly effect" is in climate science. It is the reason why climate and weather are completely unpredictable.
The mathermatical roots of the effect are in Chaos theory, which is the study if iterative systems (Chaos theory and interative systems give rise to things like The Mandelbrot set.. everyone has seen the 'picture' of what this set looks like).
It is also why I chuckle slightly at "Global Warming" - if chaotic systems were predictable - they wouldn't be chaotic. Mmmm.. paradox-y.