The Butterfly Effect and Chaos Theory
We are pretty good at predicting the future, especially in the short run. But the farther out we look, the trickier it can become
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Sources:
1. “Chaos: The Science of the Butterfly Effect” – Veritasium (YouTube)
2. “Existence of collision trajectories of Mercury, Mars and Venus” – Nature (original paper)
3. “Solving the Three Body Problem” – PBS Space Time (YouTube)
4. “Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will?” – Scientific American
5. “A brief history of shuffling your songs, from Apple to Adele” – Popular Science
6. “Chaos theory explained: a deep dive into an unpredictable universe” – Space