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Butterfly Effect

The document discusses the butterfly effect and chaos theory. It provides three key points: 1. Chaos theory suggests that small changes in initial conditions can lead to large, unpredictable changes in complex systems over time. Even something as minor as a butterfly flapping its wings could impact later weather patterns. 2. An example is given of how being late to work due to a toothpaste issue could save someone's life by causing them to miss a building collapse, and potentially lead to a major scientific discovery. 3. Chaotic behavior exists throughout nature, impacting things like the weather, electrical circuits, lasers, chemical reactions, satellite movements, population growth, and more.

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Butterfly Effect

The document discusses the butterfly effect and chaos theory. It provides three key points: 1. Chaos theory suggests that small changes in initial conditions can lead to large, unpredictable changes in complex systems over time. Even something as minor as a butterfly flapping its wings could impact later weather patterns. 2. An example is given of how being late to work due to a toothpaste issue could save someone's life by causing them to miss a building collapse, and potentially lead to a major scientific discovery. 3. Chaotic behavior exists throughout nature, impacting things like the weather, electrical circuits, lasers, chemical reactions, satellite movements, population growth, and more.

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BUTTERFLY EFFECT

By Moroianu Elena Victorita


CHAOS THEORY
WHAT IS THE THEORY OF CHAOS?
• Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary scientific theory
and branch of mathematics focused on underlying
patterns and deterministic laws highly sensitive to
initial conditions in dynamical systems that were
thought to have completely random states of
disorder and irregularities.
Chaos: When the present determines the
future, but the approximate present does not
approximately determine the future.
BUTTERFLY EFFECT
A butterfly fluttering its wings somewhere in Europe can trigger a tornado in Texas.
So says the chaos theory. This theory - in essence - indicates that small changes in the initial
data of a complex system can lead to very different final states of the system. Edward Lorenz
is the founder of this theory.
This example comes from the meteorological area and tells us that small variations in
the weather in one part of the globe can lead to significant changes in the weather in another
part of the Earth; or, to put it bluntly, the fluttering of a butterfly's wings in Bucharest can
trigger a hurricane in the Pacific.
CHAOS THEORY AND DAILY LIFE
Instead of going out the door of the house, as you usually do every morning, at 8.00,
on a certain day, you are a quarter of an hour late because your toothpaste is finished, and the
new tube of toothpaste is hard to find. Thus, instead of arriving at work at 8.45, you are
expected to arrive at 9.00. Only at 8.50 there is a devastating earthquake that leads to the
collapse of the building where you have your office, and everyone in the building is crushed.
You may think that some bizarre god thought of you and saved you, for some reason. Or you
may think you're lucky, find a new job, and in half a year discover how you can produce
unlimited free energy for all of humanity (say, nuclear fusion). In this way, not only will you
become famous, and your name will survive as long as the human species exists, but millions
of people will literally owe you their lives. In this way, starting from the completion of a tube
of toothpaste, humanity is chosen with the greatest technological achievement in history.
EXAMPLES OF HAOTIC
BEHAVIOR IN NATURE
Chaotic behavior is widespread in nature.
Chaos not only affects the weather forecast, but has
been identified by scientists in electrical circuits,
lasers, chemical reactions, the dynamics of satellites
in our solar system, population growth or molecular
vibrations. Some experts also say that chaos is present
in the movement of tectonic plates and even in the
economy.

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