+42 Butterfly effect: A butterfly flaps its wings, and the slight change that this causes can result in a tornado somewhere else. That's pretty mind-blasting, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I know people usually say mind-blowing, but I got the mind-blasting thing from Russell Peters if I wrongly explained the butterfly effect please correct me

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You explained it correctly, it's just that whole premise is false. If even a single butterfly could have that result, what would birds do? There'd be an apocalypse every time there was a mass-migration, which happens all the time. The //lesson// it teaches is true; small actions can have big repercussions. The actual idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can affect anything anywhere is completely untrue, though.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

oh okay I didn't know that I thought it was a theory but now I can see that it's fictional it just seemed so believable to me with mass-migration, I thought it was something that could happen but that didn't mean it would I thought that something big might happen eventually but not definitely if that makes sense

by Anonymous 11 years ago

actually the idea is every action has a equal and oppisite reaction so from saying that think of when you press a button to make the stop light appear so you can cross the road say their are 3 cars that have now stopped and you cross the road you have just changed their lives as if you had not been their to stop the cars the situation would be simular but the thoughts of the people will change for better or for worse we will never no and now if you have read this message your life would be different to say if i haddent so all in all every action we ever take from the butterfly flapping its wings to having a nightmare instead of a good sleep everything changes it reaction depending on the variable

by Anonymous 11 years ago