Can physics predict the future? This video explores the fundamental predictability of the universe through the lens of Newton ...

Opening with a line from Chaos Theory, The Butterfly Effect states that even the smallest flutter of a butterfly's wing can cause a hurricane to form halfway across the world. By meshing this with the ...

The butterfly effect is often misunderstood as a mystical idea that small actions always lead to massive consequences. In ...

Meteorologist Edward Lorenz has died. He laid the foundations for the field of scientific study called chaos theory. He famously suggested that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could ...

Edward Lorenz was the father of "chaos theory," also known as the "butterfly effect." He explained how something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wings could lead to a big change elsewhere in ...

Chaos theory -- and no, we're not talking about the operating principle of Congress-- is the attempt to predict the consequences of systems that are so complex their functions seem to be random. And ...

Most references to chaos theory center on the seeming fragility of order in complex systems—the butterfly effect. As popularized by storytellers, rather than scientists, the big takeaway from chaos ...