A monarch butterfly (Dannaux plexippus) flaps its wings in Piedra Herrada Sanctuary, Mexico. Might this start a chain of events that results in a tornado in Texas? Photograph by Jaime Rojo In 1961, ...

TikTok's latest obsession is chaos theory but it's a little less complicated than it sounds. People are using the butterfly effect to make connections between personal and pop culture events. The ...

According to Wikipedia, the Butterfly Effect theory is “ a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory; namely that small differences in the ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explore the butterfly effect and the principles of chaos theory.

Chaos theory shows how tiny changes in a system can lead to dramatically different outcomes. Known as the butterfly effect, ...

Perhaps the way we start out the day, even a tiny decision or practice, could change the course of one’s life. Nonlinear science—chaos theory to be specific—identifies the butterfly effect, which has ...