Summary: What is the butterfly effect? Photo: © 2016 Jee & Rani Nature Photography. Source: Wikipedia The Butterfly Effect is the notion from chaos theory where small changes in initial conditions can result in large differences in the outcome. The term was coined when a mathematician and weather scientist was describing a tornado, and noted that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings a week before might seem to change the path of the storm. In deterministic computer simulations, […]
