Unveiling the Butterfly Effect: From Small Ripples to Global Impact
The amount of extra water vapor produced by boiling an egg for a long time in a specific part of the world, how it would be if it suddenly rains in another part of the world because of that extra vapor in the atmosphere, even after two months!
Or, how about a cyclone caused by the flapping of a butterfly's wings?
Countless more and more examples can be given like these.
For instance, Mr. Iqbal's school is scheduled to end at 3 p.m. But, suddenly a call comes from home, his daughter Unaisha has cut her hand while cutting apples. He hurried home without taking the class. He went home and saw that his daughter's hand was cut and the blood was in terrible condition. So he rushed to the hospital with his daughter. Meanwhile, Jihan's school was dismissed an hour earlier due to Mr. Iqbal not taking class. Back home, he begged his mother to go for an outing. Jihan's father was at home that day. The three of them went to the cinema in their car. Without getting a ticket, they decided to go to the restaurant to eat. While they were returning home after lunch, their car got a flat tire. So Jihan and her mother took an Uber back home while his father fixed the tire and was on the way home. Suddenly they got a call and they came to know that Jihan's father met with an accident while returning home and was being taken to the hospital...
Now let's stop and think -
Mr. Iqbal's daughter didn't cut her hand, he finished his class on time, Jihan's school got off on time, he didn't bother coming home to go for an outing, their car didn't get a flat tire, and his father didn't meet an accident.
So it turns out that everything happened from a small cut of an apple to Jihan's father's accident. Not only that, but because of Jihan's father's accident, the busy people, of them suddenly became chaotic.
Moreover, if they could have bought the movie tickets, the course of events would have been completely different!
Although the above events are fictional, indeed, every person in this world is somehow affected by the actions of others. And here comes the famous butterfly effect.
The Butterfly Effect is the idea that small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system. It is defined in "chaos theory (Edward Norton Lorenz, 1961)" as the sensitive dependency on beginning circumstances, in which a tiny change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in immense alterations in a later state.
Lorenz observed that the weather exhibits a nonlinear phenomenon known as sensitive reliance on initial conditions. He built a weather model that shows that practically any two neighboring starting points, representing current weather, would swiftly diverge paths and will frequently finish up in distinct "lobes," which correlate to calm or stormy weather. He dubbed this phenomenon, which makes long-term weather forecasting impossible, the "butterfly effect" to the general public.
“You could not remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby … changing something throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole.”
— Fichte, The Vocation of Man (1800)
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