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A butterfly in the tropical rain forest of Amazon River basin in South America, occasionally flapping its wings, can cause a tornado in Texas in two weeks.

The reason is that the movement of butterfly flapping its wings causes the air system around it to change and produce weak airflow, which in turn will cause corresponding changes in the surrounding air or other systems, which will cause a chain reaction and eventually lead to great changes in other systems.

The "butterfly effect" is mainly a metaphor about chaos. It is also the true reaction of the butterfly effect. An insignificant little gesture can cause a series of great reactions.

Butterfly effect is a concept in chaos theory. It refers to a dependence on the sensitivity of initial conditions: small differences at the input end will be quickly amplified to the output end, and the butterfly effect can be found everywhere in economic life.

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Seemingly irrelevant, very small things may bring about great changes. This effect shows that the result of the development of things is extremely sensitive to the initial conditions, and the smallest deviation of the initial conditions will cause great differences in the results. When a person receives a small psychological stimulus when he is a child, this stimulus will be amplified when he grows up. The film Butterfly Effect has made a wonderful interpretation.

Butterfly effect is usually used in weather, stock market and other complex systems that are difficult to predict in a certain period of time. If this gap is getting bigger and bigger, it will be very destructive. Why are there crashes and unpredictable natural disasters in the weather or the stock market?

The butterfly effect is used in sociology to explain that a tiny mechanism, if not guided and adjusted in time, may bring great harm to society, which is dubbed as "tornado" or "storm"; A tiny mechanism, with correct guidance, may have a sensational effect after a period of hard work.

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