A simple guide to chaos theory BBC World Service Visit > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_ahZOgPTsk&list=LL&index=6 According to classical physics and the laws of Isaac Newton, it should be easy to predict the behaviour of objects throughout the universe with relative ease. But in 1961, a meteorologist unwittingly discovered this was not the case – that there was a lot more uncertainty around us. Here's how chaos theory and its butterfly effect, has changed the way we think