The real butterfly effect
Historical evidence is reviewed to show that what Ed Lorenz meant by the iconic phrase 'the butterfly effect' is not at all captured by the notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in low-order chaos. Rather, as presented in his 1969 Tellus paper, Lorenz intended the phrase to...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Physics Publishing
2014
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