Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The butterfly effect

In essence, the butterfly effect is a theory that states small changes to any form of interdependent system can cause massive results. A hypothetical example of the butterfly effect pertaining to environmental biology is the weather patterns. There are too many unknown variables in an environmental system like Earth to make prediction of weather possible. A butterfly could flap his/her wings and cause a tornado days later on the other side of the world as stated by chaos theory and the butterfly effect.

My understanding of the butterfly effect came from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-butterfly-effect.htm

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