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Sunday, May 4th 2008

10:52 AM

chaos pronounced chowse

mood of the moment: satisfied
song in my head: the freshman Brian Vander Ark

so as i sit here on this Sunday morn
i am thinking about chaos {which i am in the midst of}
and butterflies {which usually calm and center me}

i had no idea about the butterfly effect
but i suppose this is my lesson for the day...
it is strange how i get an idea and in searching for images on the net, i end up somewhere else totally ~ yet it completes the circle.

somewhere, sometime ago ~ almost 6 years ago ~ some tiny change occurred perhaps the beating of a butterflies wings and it catapulted me into a new frame of mind; at first it was so tiny i hardly noticed, but like a stone gathering moss as it rolls down a hill, this new perspective has altered my life and my consciousness. there is no going back, only forward with an occasion to look back and learn from where i have come...
today i live in a pretty constant state of chaos but every once in a while i receive the gift of floating like a butterfly~the important thing is to enjoy the ride while it lasts.

Taken to the extreme, it could make the scientific case that ones breath could have the same impact as the "Butterfly Effect.", the "BFE" suggests that the flapping of a butterfly's wings can create tiny changes in the atmosphere, which could over time cause a tornado to occur.

The Butterfly Effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. The idea is that small variations in the initial conditions of a dynamical system produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system

something totally funny i found

2 other voices.

Posted by the fool:

The butterfly effect served as the basis for a short story I wrote. The main character, an "experimental historian" would travel back in time, change one minor thing, come back to the present to see how it altered history, and then go back and change things back the way they were.

In his final experiment, he went back in time, found the guy who invented verbs, and killed him. When he came back to the present, everyone was just standing around doing nothing, because, of course, to do something would require verbs. The final twist was that the historian couldn't then go back in time to change things back, because to do so would require a verb, so he was stuck forever.

Sunday, May 4th 2008 @ 2:33 PM