The Butterfly Effect
Vayeilech, Impact Levi Levitin Vayeilech, Impact Levi Levitin

The Butterfly Effect

On December 29, 1972, American meteorologist Edward Lorenz presented a talk entitled "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set a Tornado in Texas?"

The Butterfly Effect concept, highlighting the possibility that small causes may have momentous effects, eventually became a metaphor used in very diverse contexts, many of them outside the realm of science.

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