Impossible: Physics beyond the Edge

Predicting the Future (1x8)

Data emisji: Sty 01, 2010

Consider a new kind of impossible thing: predicting the future in the presence of chaos. Even the slightest imprecision in present knowledge makes the long-term future unknowable. This is the phenomenon of dynamical chaos, also known as the"butterfly effect" from the ability of a single flapping butterfly to radically affect future weather.