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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The Butterfly Effect...

A small disturbance will result in a chain of consequences. It is interesting that butterfly effect exists everywhere in nature, from weather forecast to traffic congestion, or cascading failures.

For humans, unfortunately, not a single person is able to be exempt from the butterfly effect. Life is typically not controlled by any individual's wish, no matter how wealthy or powerful he/she is. No one is able to tell the exact stock price for tomorrow. In this case, life is fair for everyone. :)

It is sad to notice that the driven force of the long life path is only a few flashing moments. The moment you got a college offer, the moment you met your boyfriend/girlfriend, the moment you got married, the moment you had a new born.... Life path changed irreversibly by those moments, no matter it is good or bad. Once changed, you have to accept it, and keep life going.

I was wondering if there is a way to predict such effect. The answer is "no", from the materials I read regarding butterfly effect and chaos theory. The basic idea of chaos theory is that it's impossible to predict nature, since we are all controlled by it, and it is far beyond human's knowledge to predict. In this case, humans are not distinguishable from cats, dogs or birds... They are all vulnerable under nature. Nature is fair for all the species. :)

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