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“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” ―Zhuangzi,The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu Chu

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