How is chaos theory related to the butterfly effect?
“The Butterfly Effect” is a name for a part of Chaos theory. Chaos theory is a broad branch of philosophy and associated mathematics. The butterfly Effect is a simplified name for phenomenon and mechanics within the systems referred to by Chaos theory. Wikipedia explains it pretty well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect Interesting stuff.