'Butterfly effect' theorist dies
The league of grand thinkers has lost another member.
Edward Lorenz, the famed meteorologist who came up with the chaos theory -- often known as the "Butterfly Effect," a theory of complete interconnectedness that states that something as small as a butterfly flapping its wings in Asia could, through a climatological domino effect, cause a tornado in Texas -- has died at his home in Cambridge. He was 90.
Though I didn't know his name, this theory has always been one of great interest to me -- one that just innately made sense and changed my thinking on weather and, more grandly, how the world's atmosphere works. R.I.P., Mr. Lorenz.
Edward Lorenz, the famed meteorologist who came up with the chaos theory -- often known as the "Butterfly Effect," a theory of complete interconnectedness that states that something as small as a butterfly flapping its wings in Asia could, through a climatological domino effect, cause a tornado in Texas -- has died at his home in Cambridge. He was 90.
Though I didn't know his name, this theory has always been one of great interest to me -- one that just innately made sense and changed my thinking on weather and, more grandly, how the world's atmosphere works. R.I.P., Mr. Lorenz.
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