Time Traveler Memes Reveal Cursed Results of the Butterfly Effect

Even if you haven’t seen 2004’s The Butterfly Effect, you’re probably aware of the concept in its title. It hails from Edward Lorenz’ lauded work with chaos theory. Lorenz first popularized the idea in regards to weather, with the most famous example being that a sudden change in the way a butterfly flaps its wings …
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Miraculous Times Lucky People Dodged A Bullet

Is one’s life just a series of random and chaotic events, or are there underlying patterns that determine the things that happen to us? In the late 1050s, Meteorologist Edward Lorenz was skeptical of linear statistical models of meteorology and pioneered weather and climate predictability through his discovery of deterministic chaos—the theory that though chaotic …
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