Shoshi Week 4: The Butterfly Effect



During a meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Meterologist Edward Lorenz posed his question, does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas. While this simple question was meant to spark inquires on complex systems that have unpredictable behaviors, instead it lead a branch of mathmatics called chaos theory, as well as to one of the most well know theroies associated with time travel.


The way most people know the butterfly effect is under the lens of time travel. Looking at it under this lens, it’s view is almost completely differently from its original purpose. When I first learned about the butterfly effect from my dad, I heard a summary of A Sound of Thunder, a short story following a trip through time. I’m going to let you all read A Sound of Thunder yourselves as it is an amazing story, but I will share the main point of the story that I want to bring up. Once the main character returns to the future, he finds that many things have changed. Why has this happened? We find out it is because he stepped on a single butterfly, really sending home the message that changing one tiny thing can affect the rest of the time. 


Despite the fact that this story terrified seven year old me for quite a while, it really introduced me to the word of science fiction and began my love of the genre and the idea of the butterfly effect as a whole.

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  1. Milo MOctober 26, 2022 at 8:42 AM

    This sounds like an amazing book and I'll definitely check it out! I find scientific theories really interesting and this one especially was super intriguing to learn about.

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