can anyone explain me the butterfly effect?

Question

can anyone explain me the butterfly effect?

In: Physics

Answer 1

[Basically think of a domino effect](https://youtu.be/y97rBdSYbkg?t=47).
It starts with a tiny domino, but that knocks over a bigger domino and a bigger domino and a bigger domino.

In the formulation it’s a butterfly flaps its wings, which moves the wind a bit, so it interacts with a different wind, which then pushes a warm front a fraction of a degree, which causes it too… and so on and so forth until what would have been a normal day is now a hurricane.

So why were people talking about it?
Well it was there to explain why predictions on very complicated systems (such as weather predictions) is hard.
Sure you can use radar to track clouds and warm fronts and stuff, but you can’t track every single butterfly, and a butterfly flapping its wings can screw up your predictions.