steevo
25-04-2008, 05:35 PM
This news is from earlier on in the week :-
Edward Lorenz passed away Wednesday after a battling cancer. Lorenz was the first man to theorize the chaotic activities in the mathematical make up of our weather systems, thus creating the chaos theory.
His intense studies led him to widen what is now branded as the "butterfly effect," the idea being the smallest of events can create a chain reaction leading to potentially huge consequences, like dropping a stone in water; the ripple grows.
The ‘butterfly effect’ came from a paper he wrote in 1972 stating, "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set off a Tornado in Texas?" In 1961 he worked on weather experiments which led to his theory.
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=70090
Edward Lorenz passed away Wednesday after a battling cancer. Lorenz was the first man to theorize the chaotic activities in the mathematical make up of our weather systems, thus creating the chaos theory.
His intense studies led him to widen what is now branded as the "butterfly effect," the idea being the smallest of events can create a chain reaction leading to potentially huge consequences, like dropping a stone in water; the ripple grows.
The ‘butterfly effect’ came from a paper he wrote in 1972 stating, "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set off a Tornado in Texas?" In 1961 he worked on weather experiments which led to his theory.
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=70090