I just saw a scary image of the wall of a plane being ripped out mid-flight and someone in the comment section said that it was a perfect example of the burnt toast theory.
The two people that were supposed to sit in the area of the wall collapse missed their flights that day so no one got hurt but what does this have to do with the burnt toast theory?
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The person who commented and said they were supposed to be there and missed their flight was just a troll and confirmed so in the comments, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in the actual claim.
If I just left my house 1 minute later I wouldn’t have gotten into that fender bender. Maybe, maybe not. I could have hit and killed a pedestrian who ran into the roadway without looking. Maybe, maybe not. Better not to question life and accept present circumstances?
its also called butterfly effect but more formally chaos theory, the explanation is that small differences in starting conditions or small differences affect a larger system greatly over time.
Famous example – Seth MacFarlane having a hangover – and not boarding the one of the planes that hit the WTC on 9/11
https://www.unilad.com/news/seth-macfarlane-mark-wahlberg-nearly-boarded-911-flight-20220913
My wife and I were heading out to dinner and at the last minute I realized she was dressed nicer than I was. I grabbed my nice boots but then I had to go get different socks to go with them. On our way to the restaurant someone blew through a red light and totaled my car.
I pointed out if I hadn’t changed my socks we would have been a minute down the road when the person ran the light. I’m not allowed to change socks anymore.
It’s basically a way of saying that life’s inconveniences have a purpose.
For example, there are people alive today who would have died on 9/11. Things like a malfunctioning alarm, traffic jam, spilling coffee on their clothes so they had to stop for a new shirt, their turn to buy the office donuts, etc. All of those little inconveniences resulted in them getting to the towers after the plane or planes hit. Had they been on time, they would have likely been killed.
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