Butterfly Effect

Communing with a fluttering butterfly during a walk in Weaverville, CA, and acknowledging the truth and fallacy of the butterfly effect.

The butterfly effect is a phrase coined by Edward Lorenz in 1972 when he wrote a paper entitled “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?”
The metaphor became increasingly popular in movies like “Havana” when Robert Redford’s character, a math-smart professional gambler, said: “A butterfly can flutter its wings over a flower in China and cause a hurricane in the Caribbean.”

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Posted on September 15, 2017 by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Idiotic Musings, Travel, USA, Weather, Where is the idiot

About Joel

Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."

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