TagButterfly Effect
A Sound of Thunder: Does the Famous Butterfly Effect Make Sense?
I am going to look at the 1952 short story first — the premises and the plot — before tackling the 2005 film
A Form of Time Travel That Might Be Possible…
In world of entropy, time runs in one direction and reversing it would create impossible contradictions. physicists sayOf the four dimensions, only time is mysterious. We can play games with the other three, the spatial dimensions — imagining, for example, 2- or even 1-dimensional universes, as in Flatland (1884). But in the end, they follow the rules. Time goes in one direction only and time travel — moving time in the other direction is easy to imagine in principle but full of nearly impossible conundrums in practice. Astrophysicists struggle to figure it out. Our brains are adapted to keeping track of the present (the experience of “now”) and the past (memory). But that only tells us how we come to be aware of time. It doesn’t tell us what time is. We get a bit closer, says Read More ›
Does the Butterfly Effect Sharply Limit AI’s Power?
Our world and our lives are more complex, and even chaotic, than math allowsEdward Lorenz discovered that certain systems—notably those in which we live and move, such as weather, economies, and traffic—are inherently unpredictable.
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