Chaos Theory

Question

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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Answer 1

I think the central insight of chaos theory is that we are very limited in making predictions of complicated systems (like the weather) because we never have perfect data or perfect models about the world and lots of little inputs that we can’t record contribute to outcomes over time.