In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...
A new study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps. Think of it as the 'butterfly effect' ...
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The butterfly effect: This obscure mathematical concept has become an everyday idea, but do we have it all wrong?In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" Over the next 50 years, the so-called ...
In Brazil, a butterfly flaps its wings, setting off a chain of events that ends with a tornado in Texas. 1 In layman's terms, chaos theory states that the most unpredictable and seemingly ...
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