Let’s start with the findings of Lorenz, a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To predict weather, he used computers to solve 13 equations that simulated the Earth's atmosphere. In order to examine the results more carefully, he took out an intermediate solution, improved the accuracy and sent it back. And when he came back to look at it after drinking a cup of coffee, he was surprised: what was originally a very small difference turned out to be a huge deviation! There was nothing wrong with the computer, so Lorenz decided that he had discovered a new phenomenon: "extreme instability of initial values", that is: "chaos", also known as the "butterfly effect", the flapping wings of an Asian butterfly , will cause tornadoes more powerful than strong winds to appear in the Americas in a few months!

This discovery is so important that even scientists don’t understand it. Several scientific magazines also rejected his article, considering it to be “against common sense”: if similar initial values ??are substituted into a determined equation, the results should also be similar. , how can we stay far away? Desperate may be understood as a whole, but the butterfly effect refers to the impact of "one thing" on the result. Just like changing just a little bit of data, the result of the calculation will be very different. The reason why the "Butterfly Effect" is fascinating, exciting and thought-provoking lies not only in its bold imagination and charming aesthetic color, but also in its profound scientific connotation and inherent philosophical charm. And that's exactly what's so hard to understand.