Butterfly effect means that in a dynamic system, small changes in initial conditions can drive a long-term huge chain reaction of the whole system. It is a chaotic phenomenon, which shows that the development of everything has certain numbers and variables, and it can follow the development track of things regularly in the process of development.

At the same time, there are unpredictable "variables", which are often counterproductive. A small change can affect the development of things, which proves that the development of things is complicated.

Edward lorenz, an American meteorologist, has made a computer program that can simulate climate change and display it with images. Finally, he found that the image was chaotic, very much like a butterfly with its wings open, so he explained the figure vividly in the way of "butterfly flapping its wings".

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1, the application in psychology

The butterfly effect refers to a seemingly unrelated and very small thing, but it 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.

2. Application in political economy.

The butterfly effect triggered by the storm of Britain's exit from the European Union has gradually emerged, including the sudden cessation of customer redemption by the three major real estate trust funds in Britain, the instability of the Italian banking system and the weakening of the German economy, which means that the global financial market may face greater impact and more black swans. In fact, the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, John Tsang, described the current environment as having the conditions to form a perfect storm.

Britain's withdrawal from the EU has caused serious political and economic shocks, and the subsequent development is unpredictable. In particular, Britain and the European Union need to start complex and lengthy negotiations on the future political and economic relations, which has become a major uncertain factor, which will inevitably lead to persistent aftershocks in the global financial market, which will eventually hit corporate investment, consumer confidence and even economic growth, lead to a vicious circle, and may push the world economy to the edge.

3. Language application.

In 1980s, academic circles began to study language problems with chaos theory and its butterfly effect. Professor Zhou Haizhong, a mathematician and linguist in China, put forward the theory of language chaos at the seminar on new methods and new horizons of language research held in Berkeley, USA in 199 1.

He pointed out that language chaos theory mainly investigates language and its related phenomena from the perspective of chaos theory, and uses chaos theory to solve the nonlinear problems of language and its related phenomena; In order to promote the development of chaotic language research, it is necessary to establish a new language research paradigm. As far as the current situation is concerned, this new paradigm of language research is on the rise.

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China News Network-Ta Kung Pao: The butterfly effect caused by Britain's withdrawal from the EU is gradually emerging.