The Butterfly Effect
When I was a child,I read the story about how the battle was lost for the want of a horseshoe.Today I read about how a flutter of a butterfly in Amazonian Jungle can create ripples in NYSE.
The world was always of the same size as it is today,then how did it suddenly become a 'small place' , a 'global village'...?The links in the chain of events in our childhood story are more apparent than those of the modern day butterfly story.That no two events in the world are completely independent of each other would take a lot of insight to appreciate fully.The pertinent question I think is -How dependent are any two events which are 'apprently randomly' happening anywhere across the globe?
Is this question confines to the area of statistics or philosophy...I invite answers from you all...
The world was always of the same size as it is today,then how did it suddenly become a 'small place' , a 'global village'...?The links in the chain of events in our childhood story are more apparent than those of the modern day butterfly story.That no two events in the world are completely independent of each other would take a lot of insight to appreciate fully.The pertinent question I think is -How dependent are any two events which are 'apprently randomly' happening anywhere across the globe?
Is this question confines to the area of statistics or philosophy...I invite answers from you all...
posted by Prof Ramendra Singh | 10:29 AM
1 Comments:
dear ramender
I am reminded of chaos theory when i saw your comment. It could be the theory of karma or the theory of cause and effect. In a time where quantum theory has set forth the rules of uncertainity we can only place such remote effects in the field of probabilities and statistics.But I somehow feel that the implications of chaos are a long shot and there would be thin probabilities involved.But since we live in quantum times, we wouldnt ignore the effects. So I think it is like a perception . the same way we percieve karma as a crutch when in bad times, we use chaos to explain away bad effects
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