The butterfly effect — that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas — expresses the sensitivity of a chaotic system to initial conditions. Keep reading
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On the Butterfly Effect
Fluid dynamics is a veritable playground of chaotic systems, but that doesn’t always translate to easy explanations, as Henry Reich points out in this Minute Physics video. The common metaphor Keep reading
Chaos in Suspension
In science, the term chaotic is used to describe a system whose behavior is highly sensitive to initial conditions. This means that the end state can vary widely based on Keep reading