For centuries, scientists imagined the universe as a giant clock, where every motion could, in theory, be predicted.

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It reshaped how we understand weather, orbits, biology, and even world history.

Learn more about chaos theory and the butterfly effect on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Chaos theory is technically a branch of mathematics. But I'm going to start this episode by talking about philosophy and theology. In particular, the concept of determinism. Determinism is the

philosophical idea that every event is fully caused by prior events, according to the laws of nature.

In a deterministic universe, the present state of things fixes what will happen next.

Given the same starting conditions and the same laws, the same outcome must follow.

The idea gained prominence during the Enlightenment due to the success of Newtonian physics.

Newton's laws made it possible to predict the motion of planets, falling objects,

projectiles, pendulums, and tides with extraordinary precision.

The more physics succeeded, the more tempting it became to think that the whole universe

might be predictable, at least in principle.

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