Butterfly Effect

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The ancient instructions include a very important aspect that is essential to our reunion with the powers and gifts that the Devine source imparted to all.  Mere knowledge of something does not necessarily grant the ability to exercise it.  Observation of the appropriate application of the knowledge is essential for mastering a process.  To this end the teachers focus our attention on the nature of existence from the depths of the micro level to the expanse of the macrocosm. 

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There is a modern term known as the “Butterfly Effect” that was first coined by Edward Lorenz.¹  It refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in another location.  In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state.²

One of the more horrific examples of a butterfly effect within recent times was the small change that occurred to a virus.  One tiny virus (the butterfly) created a “thunderstorm” of an effect on the human population around the world with its appearance as the AIDs virus.³  Its effect literally changed every aspect of humanity; our mortality, morality, behavior, laws, psychology, medicine, education, transportation, and more.

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Even super-massive black holes, whose gravitational force propels the rotation of the galaxies and movement throughout the universe,⁴ are not exempt to this effect. They will ultimately circum to one of nature’s smallest “butterfly” couple, the virtual particle.  “The universe is apparently filled with particles and anti-particles dancing into and out of existence.”⁵  The Casimir effect is the most famous measurements supporting the existence of these particle pairs where parallel plates are literally drawn together due to the force differential of manifested virtual particles between the plates versus outside the plates.⁶  It was Stephen Hawkins’s theory of black body radiation which demonstrated how the energy of a black hole is reduced when the anti-particle of the virtual particle pair is drawn into it.  Over a large period of time the black hole will evaporate particle by particle due to this repeated absorption of anti-particles.⁷

Examples of the butterfly effect can also be seen in the interactions between people at a physiological level.  It has been demonstrated repeatedly that the most effective method to influence a person’s choices is by “planting the seed of an idea” within them and letting it manifest into actual changes within their lives.⁸  The direct approach however can and often does result in the person becoming more entrenched within their current belief system.  This is likely due to a perceived threat to their freedom of choice.

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1 Lorenz, Edward N. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 20 (2): 130–141.

2 Need to rewrite in my words previous 2 sentences or reference Wikipedia

3 Google Answers http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/507111.html: April 09, 2005

4 Antonucci, R. (1993) Unified Models for Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars: Annual Reviews in Astronomy and Astrophysics 31 (1): 473–521

5 Goldberg, Dave Are virtual particles for read: io9.com, Ask a Physicist Jan13, 2011

6 Lamoreaux, S. K. (1997) Demonstration of the Casimir Force in the 0.6 to 6 μm Range: Physical Review Letters 78: 5

7 Hawking, S. W. (1974). Black hole explosions?: Nature 248 (5443): 30

8 Shakespeare, W. Othello: Act 2 Scene 3 Line 325 (1603) Iago manipulation of Cassio 

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