5/6/2023 0 Comments As a leaf on the windMathematician – meteorologist Edward Lorenz first stumbled upon what came to be known as the Butterfly Effect in 1961, while running a primitive weather simulation on an equally primitive computer called a Royal McBee. They piled up in heaps along walls and under hedges now just the overburden of spring and summer past. In swirling winds, crowds of dry leaves like land crabs skittered and scraped across driveways and down empty streets, a rush and bustle of brown carapaces. I followed the descent of others all the way to the ground. I watched them fly on the breeze until I lost sight of them climbing over houses or fleeing into the woods. Showers of oak and ash and birch leaves soared and fluttered and helicoptered, tracing the edges of the turbulence that carried them away. Perhaps a butterfly had flapped its wings in Mexico. The trees shivered and swayed in the winds, making them let go of the last of their November leaves. Just like that, is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”Ī warm front came through today, stirring up breezes and gusts. You can hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. “I have seen something else under the sun: ~ Edward Lorenz, discoverer of the “Butterfly Effect” But I realized that any physical system that behaved aperiodically would be unpredictable.” “The average person, seeing that we can predict tides pretty well a few months ahead would say, why can’t we do the same thing with the atmosphere, it’s just a different fluid system, the laws are about as complicated.
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