Monday, July 21, 2008

Why pop culture loves the 'butterfly effect,' and gets it totally wrong - The Boston Globe

A butterfly flaps its wings and causes a storm on the other side of the world...

Variations on that phrase, coined by the recently-deceased Edward Lorenz, are used to illustrate chaos theory. Most people think it means We can connect the two events. Chaos theory--like quantum theory--suggests We won't really know. And that's Our current reality.

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