In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...
In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" The image of the tiny flapping butterfly has come ...
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The physics that made the butterfly effect possible
Chaos theory shows how tiny changes in a system can lead to dramatically different outcomes. Known as the butterfly effect, this behavior appears in weather, ecosystems, markets, and even the human ...
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