the butterfly effect??
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Everything happened. The blackouts happened, therefore all the alternate lifes happened too.  The truth is that in the end he could finally find a way to be in peace with his 'future' (not hurting anyone he loved - his mom & kaylie) choosing not to meet the girl when they were kids. In the DVD t story has alternate endings, one is the one you know, the other is that they see and like each other and start something anyway...
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see here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchison_effect#Nature_of_the_effect\nand the other links in this site
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i have no dought that this will one day happen...people have found on freak events, a brain cell that reacts to a picture in lab animals...i would imagation after a while they will have much better brain mapping to a cellear level...then from there they could figure out how to make a computer to read the information...but i think that is as far as it will go...i do not think that the computer will think for us or anything like that...i think it would be read only in a sense
841357
What difference would it make!!!
74606
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.                                                 \n\nThis is an example of the chaos theory.
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it's probably different for everyone  - i expected butterflies too but i associate butterflies with more of a nervous feeling and when i felt my baby move for the first time there was no mistaking what it was - it was kinda like being flicked from the inside - if you think that's something wait till you actually see it move for the first time - that startled me more than feeling it.  You'll know though when it happens.
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Chaos theory is often illustrated with the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings in the 'middle of nowhere' can result in massive effects elsewhere - tidal waves, winds and so on.\nThe actual definition of chaos theory is quite dry and doesn't necessarily enlighten you a lot:\n"the theory of non-linear functions, such that small differences in the input of the function can result in large and unpredictable differences in the output."\nEssentially chaos theory states that small changes that may be considered insignificant on one side of the equation can actually have massive, and strange and unpredictable, consequences, on the other side of the equation.
369720
Did you know that butterflies taste with their feet?\n\nUgh!
1152196
I think it could be possible. Even though some people ask why someone doesn't come back and tell us this, if you came back in time and told everyone this, how would you know what effect it would have? What would probably happen it that they when it's invented, nobody will be able to use it, and then it might as well not exsist. There's irony for you.
775498
Did something like this actually happen?
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nothing.\n\nthere is no documented effect of this kind.
773048
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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Kari Byron mentioned they tried the free-energy myth in one show, but i don't remember seeing that one. i need to be on that show when they revisit that myth, it will be great fun for me to confirm it for them!
724158
Er... the theory of evoltion?  It's just a theory though.  Lots of loop holes.  :)
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I think butterfly marketing is another name for buzz marketing, named after the "Butterfly Effect" (catastrophe theory) - if a butterfly flaps its wings in China, the effects are felt all over the world.\n\nBuzz marketing is where you find a small group of influencers who talk your brand/program up.
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Do you really think you'll find an answer as to why the arrow of time exists on answers.yahoo.com?  For that matter, you won't get a satisfactory answer by polling the entire cal-tech faculty.\n\nBut I will think about it for the next few years... again.
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Well, did the desired effect take place?