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Another scientist, Edward Lorenz began<br />
working on weather systems using<br />
mathematical systems that could predict<br />
the weather. He started by using traditional<br />
thinking in a Newtonian manner, but<br />
he found he could make no reliable<br />
predictions. Lorenz hit upon the idea that<br />
very small changes in the starting position<br />
of a prediction could result in very major<br />
differences further down the road.<br />
He captured his ideas in a now famous<br />
lecture called, ‘Does the flap of a butterfly’s<br />
wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?’<br />
This led to a new phrase in our language,<br />
‘The Butterfly Effect’.<br />
The discovery of chaos was a real turning<br />
point in the history of science and the tearing<br />
down of the Newtonian dream. Scientists<br />
started to look carefully at Turing and others<br />
work, and the sense that there could be links<br />
between the chaotic nature of the butterfly<br />
effect and natures strange power to self<br />
organize began to grow.
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