The Butterfly Effect
Simplicity is not Simple.
Chaos is not Chaotic.
地球是否会因为我的离去而停止转动?
Did this question ever crossed your mind when you were a kid?
(Haha...assuming that you already knew what was Earth by then =P)
Chaos is not Chaotic.
The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.
- Ian Stewart, "Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos"
地球是否会因为我的离去而停止转动?
Did this question ever crossed your mind when you were a kid?
(Haha...assuming that you already knew what was Earth by then =P)
posted by kiddy at
20:56
3 Comments:
Butterfly effect is something rather abstract. A seemingly petty action like the fluttering of the wings of an insignificant butterfly could be the very trigger of a major event.
If something as neligible as a flap of wings could be the fuel for a major downstream occurence, the presence/absence of a person would definitely be pivotal in the setting of history for mankind.
So, Kiddy, don't fret, u are important..
By
Anonymous, at 25/1/06 22:28
eh.. in social science. they call this the actor-network theory...
By
Harng Luh, at 26/1/06 12:15
Wow so what does the actor-network theory say?
By
kiddy, at 3/2/06 01:33
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