What I learned on the Internet: The Butterfly Effect (Or How You can effectively start a World War)

The Butterfly Effect (Or How You can effectively start a World War)

We all want to go back in past change one little thing, so that our lives would be completely guilt-free.

Turns out that even if you want to, you would end up ruining and tearing the world apart in one or more ways.

Butterfly effect states that if the butterfly didn't flap at that particular time and space, hurricane wouldn't have happened.

Or, inversely speaking, if the butterfly had been at the right place and the right time the hurricane would certainly take place, i.e. small changes in initial conditions leads to drastic and humongous results.

Our world is a very big and complex system with each actions and phenomena tightly attached and linked to each other.

Butterfly effect is also called as the Chaos theory. But as the name suggests, its not actually related to disorder.

Its actually a link between order and disorder of a system.

Because of the theory being valid in a complex system with everything intertwined with each other, we can't actually determine the fate of the system. No matter how much initial conditions are given. And for a complex system, you can't at any time determine with a perfect accuracy what the initial conditions actually are.

Basically your next step can create a World-War. As you don't know how your small step can get integrated to form what.