{"id":4211,"date":"2019-11-23T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2022-03-11T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T19:37:02","slug":"the-butterfly-effect-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-butterfly-effect-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Effect Theory Explained: Impact of Small Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-butterfly-effect-theory-2\/\">the butterfly effect theory<\/a>? How is it related to the idea of nonlinearities? How does it explain why we make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/bad-predictions\/\">bad predictions<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The butterfly effect theory is the idea that a small change in a nonlinear system can have huge effects in the larger system. This idea was proposed by an MIT meteorologist, who discovered that an infinitesimal change in input parameters can drastically change weather models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll cover what the butterfly effect theory is and how small changes can have large effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Butterfly Effect Theory and Nonlinearities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An example of nonlinearities is chaos theory&#8217;s \u201cbutterfly effect.&#8221; The butterfly effect theory was established in the 1960s when a meteorologist at MIT modeling weather patterns discovered that a minuscule rounding change in his input parameters resulted in tremendously different weather events. Thus the concept that<strong> a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world can cause a hurricane in another<\/strong>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Poincar\u00e9\u2019s Nonlinearities<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>How is the butterfly effect theory related to nonlinearities? Henry Poincar\u00e9, arguably the most highly regarded mathematician of the late 19th-century<em> <\/em>in France, contributed to the theory of unpredictability by proposing the existence of <em>nonlinearities<\/em>\u2014small phenomena that, as time goes on, can have profound consequences.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A seminal illustration of the concept is the \u201cthree-body problem.\u201d In a planetary system consisting of two planets (bodies), predictions about those planets\u2019 motion are easy to make: One need only account for the relation between the planets. But if a <em>third <\/em>body enters the equation\u2014perhaps a comet, passing between the two planets\u2014the relation changes. Although the comet\u2019s effects may not be visible at first, the tiny forces it has exerted on the planets will compound with each cycle of the system, potentially resulting in massive changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these examples, including the butterfly effect theory, illustrates the difficulty of making accurate predictions in a \u201cdynamical system,\u201d wherein there are multiple variables and even slight changes can drastically alter results. <strong>When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-a-dynamic-system\/\">dynamical systems<\/a>, Poincar\u00e9 noted that the properties of the system can be observed and discussed, but there\u2019s no way to compute\u2014to use <em>numbers\u2014<\/em>to describe the system<\/strong>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why We Can\u2019t Know What We\u2019ll Know<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/epistemic-arrogance\/\">Epistemic arrogance<\/a>, the pretensions of \u201cexperts,\u201d our ever-increasing access to information\u2014all belie an incontrovertible fact: <strong>In many, perhaps even most, areas of our lives, prediction is simply impossible<\/strong>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The butterfly effect theory is one explanation of why predictions are impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take discoveries, for example. At any given moment, there are scores of scientists, scholars, researchers, and inventors around the world working diligently to better our lives and increase our knowledge. But what often goes unremarked is<strong> <\/strong>that <strong>the discoveries with the profoundest impact on our lives are inadvertent<\/strong>\u2014<strong><em>random\u2014<\/em>rather than the reward for careful and painstaking work<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Because earth-shattering discoveries are unexpected or inadvertent, their importance, at least in the beginning, often goes unrecognized.<\/strong> This is the same concept as the butterfly effect theory. Small changes have major impacts. When Darwin presented his findings at the Linnean Society, the 19th-century\u2019s preeminent institution of natural history, its president dismissed the theory as \u201cno striking discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the butterfly effect theory? 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