Butterflies, beautiful creatures with sadly a short life span; When i was a kid, I loved chasing those little butterflies and i remember they came in all sorts of colors, pink, yellow, purple, orange and I’d run after them till they came to a resting spot. Butterflies are somewhat mystical creatures in those days, they are set apart from the other insects in the insect kingdom, i used to hear stories about butterflies, stuff like how seeing a white butterfly is good luck, stuff like butterflies are the colors of the wind but there’s this one that i just could’nt understand at that point of time and it goes like: “When a butterfly flaps it wings, it’ll create a tornado elsewhere”

That was a mystery to me, i thought to myself : “There are so many butterflies flapping their wings in this world, this can’t be true, if it was, everyone would be dead by now” Little did i know that the story makes perfect sense to me this day, it is known as the butterfly effect.

The butterfly effect, whereby when a small action might lead to a big deviation in the results it produced is very true. Say for example when a seagull flaps it wings, it’ll create a change in the weather course forever or, putting it into today’s time traveling theory context, if you kill the supposedly-to-be researcher who finds the cure for every disease, the ultimate vaccine, the world will be doomed to countless years of diseases and sicknesses ahead. The butterfly effect is that simple.

Our world, made by theories, experiments, processes that come together to support one another. Our world today, its what people in the past used to believe, its what people in the present build on. All these came together, to make up “science”, structured by the many phenomenons observed, recordings and basic theories were produced, mathematical definition was expanded, the understanding of the world around us led to the many technological advances, breakthroughs, leaps. Just because someone decided to try explain what he observed.

Today, the butterfly effect can be explained mathematically, a slight deviation in the Lorez attractor has proven that a displacement of a single coordinate no matter how minor, will lead to a different end results.

What we do in life today, will determine and what our end results will be like. From every decision made in life, from every thought you ever had, will affect what the kind of home you stay in, the wife you have, the neighbor next door, that car you drive, the job you’re holding on so tightly to. Think about it.

Walking through the path full of pebbles