What is the butterfly effect?
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With the flutter of a butterfly's wings somewhere around the world...the wings beating could stir up something in the air...causing a boar to snort...scaring up an entire herd of zebras... yada yada yada.  Basically something that simple can lead to a chain of events that cause something great or huge.  It kinda reminds me of the game six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
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Sure.  The 'Butterfly Effect'.  Research the chaos theory.  Amazing stuff.
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The Casimir effect is a quantum mechanical effect that doesn’t require the aether.  In quantum mechanics, one deals with wave equations that must satisfy various boundary conditions and such, and everything has to make an appropriate transition to macroscopic behavior as described by classical electromagnetism.  The Casimir effect takes places in the boundary between these classical and quantum-mechanical realms.  Strange as it seems, it doesn’t require the aether to work.\n\n\nRyan Wyatt\nRose Center for Earth & Space\nNew York, New York
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A butterfly flaps its wings and it rains in new york\n\nA man says happy birthday at Strom Thurmon's party and he is forced to resign
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The idea in meteorology that the flapping of a butterfly's wing will create a disturbance that in the chaotic motion of the atmosphere will become amplified eventually to change the large scale atmospheric motion, so that the long term behavior becomes impossible to forecast.\n\nThe "Butterfly Effect" is often ascribed to Lorenz. In a paper in 1963 given to the New York Academy of Sciences he remarks:\n\n"One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever."\n\nBy the time of his talk at the December 1972 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. the sea gull had evolved into the more poetic butterfly - the title of his talk was* :\n"Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?"
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You are referring to "the butterfly effect" and this is just an illustration of a concept in a branch of science called chaos theory.\n\nThe idea is that very very small changes can snowball into bigger and bigger effects, and this is very difficult to model or predict.  \n\nFor example, on Monday you get up at 8:01, you get to breakfast one minute before your little brother (or husband), you eat his muffin, this gives you more energy to get to school (or work) on time, this gives you ten minutes to catch up with a classmate (or co-worker) who gives you a tip about a quiz (or meeting), this gives you half an hour to prepare for it, you ace it, you can leave an hour early, but then you catch a ride and get home two hours before normal. Life is grand.\n\nOn Tuesday you wake up at 8:03, you get to breakfast one minute after your little brother (or husband), he eats your muffin, hungry you have less energy to get to school (or work) on time, you miss the tip from your classmate (or co-worker), you have no time to prepare, you blow the quiz (or meeting), and have to stay an hour late making up for it, this makes you miss your ride and you have to call a cab, you arrive home two hours later.  Life sucks.\n\nThat's the butterfly effect.  Getting up two minutes later slowly grew into a bigger and bigger difference in your day.\n\nSee also the movie "The Butterfly Effect".  Ashton Kutcher travels back in time to fix things, but finds that small changes cause other unpredictable and sometimes huge long-term effects.
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butterfly. i dont know why but i would scream if i see one
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Even though this question's answer will change depending on who is answering, there are specific chemical triggers in your brain cells (neurons) that affect certain areas of your brain that can give you those lovely little butterflies, your brain reacts to this chemical the same way it reacts to drugs like cocaine and e. People can become addicted, and eventually the high wears off.
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You just know when you are in love. Everyone feels this differently.\nButterflies? No, people also get 'butterflies' when they eat bad food! :)
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Ripple effect.....one of the greatest metaphors there is. Even when I say it to myself I can imagine a pebble being dropped into a stream slowing causeing circles to vibrate against water......what your doing right now is a ripple effect...everyone thinking about this is sure to pass it on.....When you think about it life is a ripple.
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Butterfly kick on your back!
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I think you are talking about the 'Butterfly Effect' in weather forecasting.   With all the wonderful computers they have to help to forecast the weater, one of the staff was sitting in his garden when a butterfly flew past him.  He suddenly realised that the air movement caused by the wings can cause air movement which can increase over time, enough to cause a major storm in another part of the world.....................
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What is the question?  Is question is this happening or is it what the effect is?
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Whenever there is a change in the magnetic field.. It will induces an current in the near by object which changing the field.. This is called electromagnetic induction
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In a nutshell.. the butterfly effect proposes that the flap of a butterfly's wing in one part of the world say for examle the unitedstates, could cause a tornado to occur in another part of the world for example Europe. So one extremely small event could cause something majorly catastrophic to happen. I believe this was first discovered with sizemographs and earthquake patterns. It's not a fact, just theory, but there is a lot to support it. So chaos theory basically says that any organized system is prone to collapse or fall apart because chaos will eventually be introduced into it. Like in the movie Jurassic park there was a scientist played by Jeff Goldblume who was constantly trying to convince the owner of the island that eventually all the dinosaurs would escape or something bad would happen because of chaos. He was all into chaos theory.. and lo and behold he was right. Ofcourse that's just a movie, but chaos theory applies much to real life.
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Great philosophical question! \n\nI tend to think of it like this:\nIf a person's life is only affected by his or her actions and the actions of people and occurences that are directly relevant to that person's life then the "tree" doesn't make a sound. \nBut then we've all heard of the "Butterfly effect"; in which case the "tree" would sound like an explosion occuring next to you.......
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Well you should have "butterflies" in your stomach.You would do thing you would not do usually.You'll see.You'll feel.