Helm of Change
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. How many of you have heard of the Butterfly Effect? I'm just curious, you can raise your hands. |
| 0:16.0 | I would say like 10-15% of the audience is raised his hands. |
| 0:21.0 | The Butterfly Effect is actually something to do with mathematics is a part of |
| 0:25.1 | believe it or not chaos theory and what it tells us is that small causes can have large effects. |
| 0:35.0 | And the butterfly effect was first propounded back in the 1960s. |
| 0:40.0 | And the stories actually were pretty interesting. |
| 0:42.0 | When computers were first introduced to attempt to predict weather changes based on the initial data conditions, |
| 0:50.0 | one of the programmers who was testing out a model forgot to add a 0.001 value to one of the initial inputs about whether it was it wrong or |
| 1:04.4 | pressure or something he made a mistake at the fifth digit level and he |
| 1:09.7 | allowed the computer to churn out predictions for the next few weeks. |
| 1:14.0 | Then when he realized his error, he went back and he put in the right numbers and |
| 1:18.2 | even the same calculations. |
| 1:20.5 | And he was shocked to see the difference at a fifth degree decibel was so markedly different |
| 1:27.0 | that he said this couldn't be possible. |
| 1:29.0 | There must be something wrong. |
| 1:30.0 | So he went back and he did both of the experiments and he realized that no there is nothing wrong in fact if you begin with a change of literally 0.0 |
| 1:41.1 | 0.001 then the impact over the next few weeks will be so different that you're going to come to two totally radically different scenarios. |
| 1:50.0 | And it was then called the Butterfly effect to me a little bit more |
| 1:54.4 | dramatic because they did they tried to say that if the tip of the link of a |
| 1:58.6 | butterfly improved for example moved eventually over the course of the next few months it might |
| 2:04.0 | potentially cause a tidal wave in Malaysia. If a moth flew in a certain direction |
| 2:08.9 | eventually a tornado would happen in Texas now they're being a little bit exaggerated here because it's |
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