noun🔗ShareThe technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory."A small argument in the morning snowballed into a huge fight that lasted all day; it was a classic example of the butterfly effect. "theorysciencephysicsphenomenaChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(by extension) The notion that small changes in the past via time travel can cause disproportionately large and unforeseeable consequences in the present."Example of butterfly effect: stepping on a bug 4,000 years ago causes a different person to win the presidential election today."theoryphilosophyphysicstimesciencepossibilityfuturepasteventspaceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
