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In 1961, Edward Lorenz described the mathematical basis of chaos theory, a new concept that would lead us to the development of the butterfly effect. Years earlier, Ray Bradbury, in his story “A Sound of Thunder,” had presented the world with a story in which a time traveler mistakenly killed a butterfly in the age of the dinosaurs. This seemingly insignificant event meant that, upon returning to his time, the world was completely different. And as if by a whim of fate, the visual representation of Lorenz’s deterministic chaos, which explained how a tiny variation in the initial conditions of a chaotic system can lead to complex results, resembled the wings of a butterfly. Thus was born the famous butterfly effect, which Lorenz presented to the world through the following question: Can the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas? This question, which was nothing more than a metaphor, opened the door for this physical theory to make us question the foundations of our history as a civilization and even of the Universe. Because the butterfly effect has always been with us. ???????????? TWITCH: / polbertraan ???????????? DONATION OPTIONS: ???? PayPal: paypal.me/polbertran96 ✅ Become a member of the channel: / @polbertran ???? Tipeee: https://es.tipeee.com/pol-bertran ???? Patreon: / polbertran ???????????? MY SOCIAL NETWORKS: ???? INSTAGRAM: / polbertraan ???? TWITTER: / polbertraan ???? LINKEDIN: / pol-bertran-285176ba ???? TIKTOK: / polbertran ???????????? CHANNEL DISCORD: / discord VIDEO CHAPTERS: 00:00 - “A sound of thunder” 10:24 - Edward Lorenz, chaos and the butterfly 17:17 - The dark side of chaos theory 24:26 - The inevitable fluttering of the Universe