: What is the butterfly effect?
In: Mathematics
It’s a description of chaotic systems. The saying goes that the weather is so chaotic that if a butterfly flaps its wings in Colombia, in a year, that will change the weather so much as to “cause” a hurricane in Florida.
It doesn’t actually cause anything, it’s just that the final outcomes of the two situations (flap vs no flap) are completely different. This is a result of weather being extremely sensitive to initial conditions.
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