Three things do not exist…
Insignificance.
Impotence.
Isolation.
In 1963 Edward Lorenz ¹ presented a hypothesis to the New York Academy of Science.
In essence it stated that a butterfly could flap its wings, thus setting in motion molecules of air, which would move more molecules of air, eventually starting a hurricane on the far side of the planet.
Derisive laughter greeted this hypothesis—Lorenz and his seemingly wacky idea were literally laughed out of the meeting.
Well, he who laughs last…
More than thirty years later, physicists from round the planet concluded that what was known as “the butterfly effect” was dead accurate!
A while later this “wacky idea” was declared to be scientific law!—aka The Law of Sensitive Dependence Upon Initial Conditions.
Law.
Like Boyle’s Law.
Like The Law of Conservation of Matter And Energy.
The physicists took nothing on faith.
They had experimental data to back up their acceptance of “the butterfly effect.”
Now, this law deals with much more than bug wings.
It literally deals with everything.
We’re part of “everything.”
What initial conditions can we establish which will have equally profound effect?
Many might answer that without a “majority” behind them, nothing beyond mere beginnings can be achieved.
Well, consider the total energy output of a lone butterfly flapping its wings a few dozen times.
Ultimate result—a hurricane—the total energy output of a typical specimen is greater than the energy potential of the combined nuclear weapons arsenals of the entire planet.
If such a tremendous effect can result from such a relatively puny “initial condition”, what can we achieve by taking a few steps while refusing to believe in failure?
The timetable may not be ours to control.
We might not live to see the “hurricane” that results from our “wing flapping.”
But, considering this law, belief in our individual powerlessness to effect positive change is, I sincerely believe, an untenable position.
We are all greater than we have ever suspected!
¹ Founder of chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of “dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.”
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