Effect - The Butterfly

: Lorenz famously asked, "Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?". This wasn't meant to imply that a butterfly causes a tornado, but that it could be the "trigger" that shifts a sensitive, deterministic system onto a different path.

The butterfly effect has moved beyond weather science into various fields: The Butterfly Effect - The Decision Lab The Butterfly Effect

The concept was popularized by , a meteorologist and mathematician, in the early 1960s. : Lorenz famously asked, "Does the flap of