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Posted 2008-08-23, 12:16 AM
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The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. So this is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.
The theory refers as to the idea that, a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. Of course the butterfly cannot literally cause a tornado.
The term is sometimes used in popular media dealing with the idea of time travel, usually inaccurately. Most time travel depictions simply fail to address butterfly effects. According to the actual theory, if history could be "changed" at all (so that one is not invoking something like the Novikov self-consistency principle which would ensure a fixed self-consistent timeline), the mere presence of the time travelers in the past would be enough to change short-term events (such as the weather) and would also have an unpredictable impact on the distant future. Therefore, no one who travels into the past could ever return to the same version of reality he or she had come from and could have therefore not been able to travel back in time in the first place, which would create a phenomenon known as time paradox.
Such is to say, time travel would be impossible in the near future, because the simple fact that we could travel time, would make it that the future generation would travel BACK in time, and most likely destroy the time machine from ever being created, due to the fact that people might come back to change the outcome, and destroy reality as we know it, and as for the better of mankind, they'd come to destroy the time machine.
With that at state, i put the debating questions at hand.
Upon reading said information, one can ask.
Does this mean that the time machine already had the potential of being created in the past?
Would chaining the butterfly effect to the phenomenon known as "time paradox" affect the outcome of time travel, to the point of making it a reality?
Would to say that Although a butterfly flapping its wings has remained constant in the expression of this concept, the location of the butterfly, the consequences, and the location of the consequences have varied widely, would most likely affect the total outcome of the effect? (so to speak time travel)
(out of subject)
Has kyeruu truly posted an intelligent/interesting thread for the first time in the history of zelaron?
Let the debating BEGIN!
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