In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set ...

Chaos theory has been popularized by the notion that a butterfly in geographical location X [add your favourite idyllic locale] can, by flapping its wings, trigger a catastrophic weather event in ...

In Brazil, a butterfly flaps its wings, setting off a chain of events that ends with a tornado in Texas. 1 In layman's terms, chaos theory states that the most unpredictable and seemingly ...