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Is this what chaos theory in Jurassic park is? Just that random > uniformity?
I still to this day do not understand the hairs on your hand water drop metaphor. |
Say you have a long chain of events. Chaos theory deals with how very small changes in the early events can have dramatic and outsize effects on the later ones. So in the case of Jeff Goldblum trying to get into the blond's pants, the presence of a tiny hair or microscopic piece of skin in the right place at the right time makes a drop of water 100x its size go in a different direction.
Maybe that drop of water then drips drops down to the tip of her elbow and causes her to itch. But shit, the spot she itches is contaminated with dinosaur ebola, which infects her when she touches her face later. So a very small initial conition (a tiny hair or piece of skin) = ebola virus far down the chain of events.
This is what he's talking about when he refers to the butterfly effect, where the flap of a butterfly's wings might cause a hurricane somewhere else 50 years later because of cosmic Rube Goldberg causality.
If probability is a thing, though, there are tiny microscopic dicerolls embedded at various points in that causal chain.