Friday, May 23, 2008

the butterfly effect


the butterfly effect

• Did you ever wish to change the way things are happening around you?

• Did you the butterfly effect 2 wish the butterfly effect 2 could go back the butterfly effect soundtrack the the butterfly effect and make a small change that could bring a the butterfly effect change in your present?

• Did you ever wish so?

not sure how many of you have come across this theory called the butterfly effect. Well this is one of my favorite theories. It’s called the BUTTERFLY EFFECT. stay tuned for a moment till i explain what it is all about.  meanwhile give a thought to this famous question associated to this theory.

“Can a flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil chaos theory off a tornado in Texas?”

Now this the butterfly effect movie to an extent revolves around this question. butterfly effect is a theory that explains the significance of the initial condition in the chaotic theory… well don’t get confused.

It simply says: even a small change in the initial condition of a system may cause the butterfly effect variation in the long term behavior of the system. A perfect example explaining this (got from wikipedia) would be: imagine a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on the butterfly effect 2 differences in initial position.

wikipedia: The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes the butterfly effect the what s love got to do with it that ultimately cause a tornado to appear (or prevent a tornado from appearing). The flapping wing represents a small change the butterfly effect the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale the butterfly effect Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different.

how many of you ever thought i wish i could go back in the past and make a small change and i the butterfly effect would have been in such a situation today. (assuming your current situation is pathetic :P )

There have been many movies which revolve around this concept. Many times butterfly effect has been linked to time travel. But basically the butterfly effect soundtrack an implication of what the actual theory is. The movie Butterfly Effect (2004) the was one such movie I’ve watched that was an awesome movie. until the last 10 minutes i didn’t know what was happening. But then it payed off. The actor here is able to teleport to the past the butterfly effect 2 reading his diaries/journals and cause some change in the past. but every change that he makes puts him in the butterfly effect problem and no significant change the butterfly effect happens. the butterfly effect the movie does not seriously explore the implications of butterfly effect it is quite a satisfactory attempt to elucidate the butterfly effect.

Well time travel is a different story all together (which i believe is a paradox in itself). May be i can publish another post on that. But this thought on the change in the initial condition causing a intense change in the future needs an applaud.

PS: i wanna do a Ph D sometime in my career. :)

 

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