QUESTION = How could the 'Butterfly Effect' literally work?

GENERATION = **Scientists** The 'butterfly effect' is based on a conclusion based on not understanding some fundamental laws of physics. For example, the laws of physics which explain why planets orbiting the sun do not move faster than the speed of light tell us that they must be in orbit, even though they're not really moving faster than the speed of light. Also, if you were to use the 'butterfly effect' to predict when something will happen, you would expect that something which is expected to happen will happen when you predict it. The 'butterfly effect' does not refer to any one specific particle, so while it was developed in 1958, the two principles are extremely similar. Although, scientists still have some odd thoughts on why some particles must be small or spin at specific speeds. **A Rolling Stone Critic** This theory says that it's possible that some particle will move through time faster than the speed of light. The idea is that every time a particle moves through space, it interferes with itself and creates a new particle. These new particles are free to travel through space in any direction, so they will never eventually come back to us. 

RETRIEVAL #0 = Butterfly effect---quantum butterfly effect has been demonstrated experimentally. Quantum and semiclassical treatments of system sensitivity to initial conditions are known as quantum chaos. Section::::In popular culture. The journalist Peter Dizikes, writing in "The Boston Globe" in 2008, notes that popular culture likes the idea of the butterfly effect, but gets it wrong. Whereas Lorenz suggested correctly with his butterfly metaphor that predictability "is inherently limited", popular culture supposes that each event can be explained by finding the small reasons that caused it. Dizikes explains: "It speaks to our larger expectation that the world should be comprehensible – that everything happens for a reason, and that we can pinpoint all those reasons, however small they may be. But nature itself defies this expectation." The video game "Until Dawn" (2015) is based on a concept of the butterfly effect. Section::::See also. BULLET::::- Actuality and potentiality BULLET::::- Avalanche effect BULLET::::- Behavioral cusp BULLET::::- Butterfly effect in popular culture BULLET::::- Cascading failure BULLET::::- Causality BULLET::::- Chain reaction BULLET::::- Clapotis BULLET::::- Determinism BULLET:::: 

RETRIEVAL #1 = Butterfly effect in popular culture---BULLET::::- Alternate history BULLET::::- Point of divergence Section::::External links. BULLET::::- The meaning of the butterfly: Why pop culture loves the 'butterfly effect,' and gets it totally wrong, Peter Dizikes, "The Boston Globe", June 8, 2008 

RETRIEVAL #2 = Butterfly effect---he failed to provide a title for a talk he was to present at the 139th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1972, Philip Merilees concocted "Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" as a title. Although a butterfly flapping its wings has remained constant in the expression of this concept, the location of the butterfly, the consequences, and the location of the consequences have varied widely. The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in another location. The butterfly does not power or directly create the tornado, but the term is intended to imply that the flap of the butterfly's wings can "cause" the tornado: in the sense that the flap of the wings is a part of the initial conditions; one set of conditions leads to a tornado while the other set of conditions doesn't. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which cascades to large-scale alterations of events (compare: domino effect). Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different—but it's also equally possible that the set of conditions without 

RETRIEVAL #3 = Butterfly effect in popular culture---Butterfly effect in popular culture The butterfly effect is the phenomenon in chaos theory whereby a minor change in circumstances can cause a large change in outcome. The butterfly metaphor was created by Edward Norton Lorenz to emphasize the inherent unpredictable results of small changes in the initial conditions of certain physical systems. The concept was taken up by popular culture, and interpreted to mean that each event could be explained by some small cause, or that small events have a rippling effect that causes much larger events to take place. Section::::Examples. The short story "A Sound of Thunder" is often miscredited as the origin of the term "butterfly effect". Ray Bradbury's 1952 concept of how the death of a butterfly in the past could have drastic changes in the future is a representation of the butterfly effect, and used as an example of how to consider chaos theory and the physics of time travel. The story was made into a film of the same name, an episode of the television series "Ray Bradbury Theater", and its influence can be seen in the film "The Terminator", the short story "Kamikaze Butterflies", and an episode of the television series "The Simpsons". The Butterfly Effect was also mentioned in "The Amazing World Of Gumball" in which a butterfly is let out of a jar which causes a series of events leading to 

RETRIEVAL #4 = Butterfly effect---Fichte says "you could not remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby ... changing something throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole". Chaos theory and the sensitive dependence on initial conditions were described in the literature in a particular case of the three-body problem by Henri Poincaré in 1890. He later proposed that such phenomena could be common, for example, in meteorology. In 1898, Jacques Hadamard noted general divergence of trajectories in spaces of negative curvature. Pierre Duhem discussed the possible general significance of this in 1908. The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events made its earliest known appearance in "A Sound of Thunder", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel. In 1961, Lorenz was running a numerical computer model to redo a weather prediction from the middle of the previous run as a shortcut. He entered the initial condition 0.506 from the printout instead of entering the full precision 0.506127 value. The result was a completely different weather scenario. Lorenz wrote: In 1963, Lorenz published a theoretical study of this effect in a highly cited, seminal paper called "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow" (the calculations were performed on a Royal McBee LGP-30 computer). Elsewhere he stated: Following suggestions from colleagues, in later speeches and papers Lorenz used the more poetic butterfly 

RETRIEVAL #5 = Butterfly effect (disambiguation)---Butterfly effect (disambiguation) The butterfly effect is a metaphor for sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Butterfly effect may also refer to: Section::::Books. BULLET::::- "Butterfly Effect", a collection of poetry by Harry Humes BULLET::::- "Murder in Maine: The Butterfly Effect", a novel by Mildred B. Davis and Katherine Roome Section::::Film and television. BULLET::::- "The Butterfly Effect", a 2004 film, followed by two sequels BULLET::::- "The Butterfly Effect" ("Heroes"), an episode of "Heroes" BULLET::::- Two episodes of "Ugly Betty": BULLET::::- "The Butterfly Effect Part 1" BULLET::::- "The Butterfly Effect Part 2 (Ugly Betty)" BULLET::::- "Butterfly Effect" ("Unforgettable"), an episode of "Unforgettable" Section::::Music. BULLET::::- The Butterfly Effect (band), an Australian hard rock band BULLET::::- "The Butterfly Effect" (EP), a 2001 EP by the band BULLET::::- "Butterfly Effect" (album), a 2014 album by Ashley Roberts BULLET::::- "The Butterfly Effect" (album), 

RETRIEVAL #6 = Butterfly effect---Butterfly effect In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The term, closely associated with the work of Edward Lorenz, is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (the exact time of formation, the exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly several weeks earlier. Lorenz discovered the effect when he observed that runs of his weather model with initial condition data that was rounded in a seemingly inconsequential manner would fail to reproduce the results of runs with the unrounded initial condition data. A very small change in initial conditions had created a significantly different outcome. The idea that small causes may have large effects in general and in weather specifically was earlier recognized by French mathematician and engineer Henri Poincaré and American mathematician and philosopher Norbert Wiener. Edward Lorenz's work placed the concept of "instability" of the Earth's atmosphere onto a quantitative base and linked the concept of instability to the properties of large classes of dynamic systems which are undergoing nonlinear dynamics and deterministic chaos. The butterfly effect can also be demonstrated by very simple systems. Section::::History. In "The Vocation of Man" (1800), Johann Gottlieb