I remember reading that a butterfly on the otherside of the world can cause a hurricane on the opposite side, and it’s down to chaos theory, could someone explain what chaos theory is please? Thanks
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Chaos theory is a bit like when you play with toy cars, and you push one car, and it bumps into another, and then it’s hard to predict where they’ll go next. In chaos theory, people study things that are a little bit messy and hard to predict, like how the weather can be tricky to guess.
So, it’s about trying to understand things that can be a bit like those toy cars when you can’t be 100% sure where they’ll go next. Scientists use math to help figure out the patterns in this kind of messiness.
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