Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly�s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas? This paper, given by Edward Lorenz in 1972 to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., popularized the term �butterfly effect,� which purports to explain how a miniscule change in events can bring about large-scale catastrophe.
In my heart, I believe the butterfly effect. I like the helplessness of it, the morbid possibility that some insignificant action on my part is going to set off a chain of events that will ultimately spell my downfall. And when I appear to come close to fulfilling the theory, when something happens to make me think my world is coming unglued, I talk to God.
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