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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The [Wikipedia article on the butterfly effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect) has more information that you probably want to know, comprehensively written in a fairly comprehensible way.
The article even includes a video of six actual chaotic systems demonstrating the effect of small perturbations of initial conditions can result in dramatic variations in ending conditions.
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