Tuesday, April 29, 2008 ♥ 11:57 PM
哇咔咔咔咔。。
我终于可以使用华文了。不懂为何以前没有试。
有可能因为我noob咯。。
Anyway, my main purpose for today's blog is not tat...
I as a Free Thinker, a trule free thinker, who accepts anything, fiction or facts, would like to introduce one important term.
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
For those who are not familiar with the term, i'm going to give you a simple explanation. Ok.
Imagine, you plucked a leaf off a tree. That one leaf might affect the photosynthesis of the plant. In return, the plant dies and returns to the soil as a dead artifact. After years and years, the tree becomes fertilizer or some sort of biomass material.
The main point here is: Small variations of the initial condition may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.
The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately cause a tornado to appear (or prevent a tornado from appearing). The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different.
The origin and concept of the term came from Edward Lorenz. Lorenz was using a numerical computer model to rerun a weather prediction, when, as a shortcut on a number in the sequence, he entered the decimal .506 instead of entering the full .506127 the computer would hold. The result was a completely different weather scenario.[2] Lorenz published his findings in a 1963 paper for the New York Academy of Sciences noting that "One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings could change the course of weather forever."
Now, here's the funny and hard part.. There's a equation to it.
In the show Butterfly Effect:
Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher), when reading from his adolescent journals, is able to essentially "redo" parts of his past. As he continues to do this, he realizes that even though his intentions are good, the actions he takes always have unintended consequences.
In the 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury, "A Sound of Thunder", the killing of a butterfly during the time of dinosaurs causes the future to change in subtle but meaningful ways: e.g., the spelling of English and the outcome of a political election.
In The Simpsons Halloween episode, "Time and Punishment", Homer repeatedly travels back to the time of dinosaurs with a time machine (à la Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder). Each time there, Homer's actions (involving intentional and unintentional violence) drastically alter the current universe. Some of the changes include: A world dictator, a universe where his family is rich and classy and it rains donuts, and a seemingly normal universe, with the exception of everyone having long reptilian tongues.
In a 2004 television episode of comedy sitcom Scrubs called "My Butterfly", the episode is shown in two parts: The first in which a butterfly lands on a woman sitting in the hospital's waiting room, and the second where time is rewound and the butterfly instead lands on the man next to her. Both halves of the episode show the noticeably (albeit sensationally) different outcomes that stem directly from the original choice of landing locations of this butterfly.
In a second season episode of CSI titled "Chaos Theory", the entire CSI team investigates a disappearance of a young woman at a local university. Forensics leads them to possible suspects, and possible suspects all have probable motives, but nothing seems to pan out. This leads the team to discuss the "Chaos Theory": when combined, many seemingly innocuous events may have a deadly outcome, and closure is not always within reach.
Now here's a fact!!
The third season premiere of Heroes is entitled "The Butterfly Effect." XD
Anyway, guys, this is no joke... We better think twice before we do something that hurts the environment.. Everyone got tat? Now i'm going to throw the rubbish somewhere, so....
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