1, "butterfly effect" is mainly a metaphor about chaos. It is also the true reaction of the butterfly effect. An insignificant little gesture can cause a series of great reactions.
Lorenz thinks that he has discovered a new phenomenon: the result of the development of things is extremely sensitive to the initial conditions. He later identified this as "extreme instability to the initial value", namely "chaos", also known as "butterfly effect".
Extended data:
1, a causal phenomenon composed of certain factors and certain results in a limited environment, is often used to describe a natural phenomenon and social phenomenon. The word effect is widely used and does not necessarily refer to the causal relationship in strict scientific theorems and laws.
2. "Today's butterfly effect" or "generalized butterfly effect" is not limited to the butterfly effect only aimed at weather forecast in Edward Norton Lorenz, but is applicable to all complex systems. Under certain "threshold conditions", their long-term and large-scale future behavior is extremely sensitive to small changes or deviations in initial conditions.
3. Butterfly effect is usually used in weather, stock market and other complex systems, and it is difficult to predict in a certain period of time. The butterfly effect refers to a seemingly unrelated and very small thing, but it may bring about great changes.
4. The "butterfly effect" is a manifestation of chaotic motion, which refers to a dependence on the sensitivity of initial conditions: small differences at the input end will quickly amplify to overwhelming differences at the output end, just like a butterfly flapping its wings in Beijing today, which may trigger a series of events in the atmosphere, thus leading to a storm in new york in a month.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia _ effect Baidu encyclopedia _ butterfly effect