Last night I woke up with these series of images in my mind.
The Homer effect:
Homer screws up big time, notices it and says 'do'h' with very loud voice. Camera pulls out, while the voice is still reveberating, so that the earth enters the picture. As earth turns and Australia comes into view camera zooms into Australia where we find a gentle breeze tearing a mulberry berry out of a tree. The berry falls and crushes a butterfly on the ground.
Topi
This "effect" figured prominently in the "toaster is a time machine" THOH vignette.
Mr. Museum
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Well, there's one 'butterfly effect' that imagines the beating wing of a butterfly in China leading to a tornado in America. Then there is the classic science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury ("A Sound of Thunder") wherein time travellers radically change history by stepping on a butterfly in the time of dinosaurs. This serves as the springboard for the THOH. And of course, "Butterfly Effect" the 2004 movie which also had a kind of time travel.
-- R Flowers
In Chaos Theory, all the points on the real line [0,1], can be mapped to a set of infinite strings of zeroes and ones, where none of these strings is the same. The 0 or 1 byte corresponds to which side of the centerline of the [0,1] the point from the [0, 1] set lands on after n trips through the iterator. Eventually two points next to each other on the real line wind up on opposite sides of the centerline. Sensitive dependency on initial conditions. I have not studied this material in a while, as I am busy reading books about Design Patterns and C++ STL for work, so I have no time for additional study of Chaos Theory right now. But, IIRC, the butterfly thing, if it ever happened, would be explained by this. And this is also why tiny increases in the ambient temperature create more hurricanes and so on.
Mr. Museum
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Sorry to correct you but it is [0,1) not [0,1].
Topi
R Flowers wrote:
Funny. I've always heard that 'the butterflu effect' is that a butterfly beating it's wings in _Australia_ causes a hurricane in Europe.
Topi
"Topi Linkala" wrote in message news:egh1lv$k43$[email]...
Well, same principle.
You'll wish you'd never typed 'butterflu' once Aaron gets ahold of it...
-- R Flowers
R Flowers wrote:
My blood level in alcohol is quit low, so I don't apologize any typos I've made.
Topi
What's his name is driving me crazy with his swearing, so I am going to chill for a while.
I am so busy at work and reading work related stuff at home that I was unable to give an explanation of Chaos Theory on the same level with the explanation I gave for why fluids rotate in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere due to the Coriolis Force that is caused by the fluid translating in a rotating reference frame (the rotating Earth).
Ay, a dingo's eatin' yo' baby, ... mate!
Mr. Museum
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Random movement of the draining fluid has more effect on draining of the fluid than does the coriolis force.
Topi 'hope that that is grammatically coorect' Linkala
Yes. The experiment to show rotation due to Coriolis Force has to be very carefully designed. Even the surface tension forces on the edge of the tank can cancel out the Coriolis Force.
OTOH, if your "tank" is the atmosphere above the Atlantic Ocean, you don't have to be so careful.
Mr. Museum
I've heard of it as being something like a butterfly beating it's wings in China will cause a tsunami in America.
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But since tsunamis are not caused by wind, that's not correct either.
You need to brush up on Quantum Theory, dude.
You were misinformed - it's China.