butterfly effect

How to Avoid Butterfly Effect?

by lydia on Mar 17, 2010

The term butterfly effect derives from the Chaos Theory , 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 a certain location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events. The above theory is applied to describe how tiny variations can trigger giant alterations, especially in complicated systems, such as weather patterns, stock market , food safety issues, network security and so on. What the butterfly effect seems to posit, is that the prediction of the behavior of any large system is virtually impossible unless one could account for all tiny factors, which might have a minute effect on the system. Thus large systems like weather remain impossible to predict because there are too many unknown...Read More >>