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This New Result Changes What We Know About The Butterfly Effect

The butterfly effect is much stranger than most people think, and the famous line about a butterfly in Brazil isn't what Lorenz actually meant. A group of researchers has now worked out that quantum physics puts a hard wall on weather prediction, at 129 days.

This New Result Changes What We Know About The Butterfly Effect

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The butterfly effect is much stranger than most people think, and the famous line about a butterfly in Brazil isn't what Lorenz actually meant.

A group of researchers has now worked out that quantum physics puts a hard wall on weather prediction, at 129 days.

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The butterfly effect is much stranger than most people think, and the famous line about a butterfly in Brazil isn't what Lorenz actually meant. A group of researchers has now worked out that quantum physics puts a hard wall on weather prediction, at 129 days.

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