Written by: Ashi Chaturvedi
Edited by: Yashi Shah
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
Did you support the Black Lives Matter campaign? And if you did, from what part of the world? Did you support it from India or Africa or New York City or China? There is no doubt that the campaign took over the entire internet by storm and managed to unite people from all over the world. It had the power to create history and to reshape the present. Let me give you another instance.
On 7th June 1893, Mahatma Gandhi took a First-Class train ticket to travel to Pretoria, he got kicked out of the train for not giving up his seat in ‘White Only’ compartment. This ‘Humiliation’ became his ‘Motivation' as he decided to kick out the British Government from India, the same way, he got kicked out for not being ‘White’. And the day came, on 15th August 1947, he kicked out the British Government from the country. This whole episode is a living example of The Butterfly Effect.
The Butterfly Effect is a theory, given by Edward Norton Lorenz in 1960, he said: “When a butterfly flutters its wing, in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.” By this, he meant that any small incident can be a reason for a big event. It also says that the small positive vibrations can change the whole Cosmos.
When Tarana Burke started the Me Too movement in 2006, she never knew that one day a person named Milano would use her movement's name with a hashtag in a tweet and this would result in breathing exposures and help in making this world a better place for women. And, who knew that a song, recorded in 1997, would be released in 2018 and break all the records of YouTube? The song is made by a Panamanian artist El Chombo and you know it by the name of ‘Dame Tu Cosita'. Its producers were not even sure about its release and now it has 2.6 Billion views on YouTube and still increasing. If these are not the examples of The Butterfly Effect, then what would you call them?
But, where is ‘Thumbs up’, there are ‘Thumbs down’ too. Many Scientists have claimed that The Butterfly Effect Theory doesn't work in reality. They say that any particle, at the quantum level, can only move further but cannot go back in past. This means that there is no relation to past incidents with today or tomorrow. But they are still trying to prove this drawback of the theory by searching real-life examples. They have claimed that based on their lab research but when they come out from their labs, it's impossible for them not to relate any past incident with the future.
The disputes and criticisms are still on but when we observe things by ourselves, we figure out that in our journey from taking birth to now and till the end, all the events are bound in a string. If it is not so, then, where would India be today, if Mahatma Gandhi had not purchased that First-Class ticket?
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