Requesting an essay called "The Butterfly Effect, Seeing the Big from the Small"
The concept of butterfly effect originally appeared in chaos theory and refers to a mutation phenomenon. The general idea is: if a butterfly flaps its wings on one side of the ocean, a hurricane will blow on the other side of the ocean. This is a metaphor that a small difference in the initial stage will bring about a huge contrast in the final result, which is what we often What I mean is a slight difference can make a huge difference. This is a very rigorous, scientific, and cutting-edge issue. We don’t want to cover such profound content today. Just want to talk about the butterfly effect in our lives.
It was the early days of liberation, and I had just turned six. Before school started on September 1st, a new primary school was built near my home. On this day, the primary school is decorated with lights and colorful decorations. Parents are welcome to bring their primary school students to register for school. My mother took me there too. As soon as I entered the school, a female teacher asked me kindly with a smile on her face: "My child, are you here to sign up for school?" Before my mother could answer, I rushed to the teacher and said, "No, I am only six years old this year." "Oh", the teacher nodded regretfully. I was proud of my honesty, but I heard my mother scolding me in a low voice, "Otherwise, you can go to school. This school has just been established, the number of students is small, and the requirements will be looser, forget it." I don't think so, it's just one year away. Who knew the difference would be so big.
First, we took the composition test twice for the high school entrance examination. For the high school entrance examination, the questions were set uniformly across the city. The barriers were extremely strict and the matter was taken very seriously. Unexpectedly, I missed a question in the essay. We, who were already on vacation, were called into the examination room again to take the Chinese composition test again. At that time, some students had already returned to their hometowns in other places, and when they were found by a telegram, they took the train one after another, and even made an exception and even flew back to take the exam again. After all these years, it seems like it was just that one time.
The original title of the composition was "Spring Rain". It's very poetic, it can be realistic or fictitious. That spring coincided with Chairman Mao's inscription "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng." I wrote a narrative essay on the subject of learning from Lei Feng. The general idea was that the students did good deeds in the rain. It was a metaphor that Lei Feng was like the spring rain, and we are like bamboo shoots that thrive after being nourished by the spring rain. You see, spring, rain, and learning from Lei Feng are all there. It has a clear sense of the times and is closely relevant to the topic. How great. But it was useless. It was the second composition that was recorded in the high school entrance examination results. The title is "My Ideal", an old-fashioned title. I just compiled the story of Liang Jun driving a tractor in Beidahuang and handed it over. There is nothing new. Fortunately, I was admitted to one of the best girls' schools at the time, but it was only one of the last few.
Secondly, the year we graduated from high school and entered college happened to coincide with the Cultural Revolution. On June 1st, the college entrance examination in July, the first big-character poster in the country was posted, so we fought against the capitalist roaders, anti-work groups, mass linkages, and went to the mountains and countryside... It will be ten years before we go to college again. We will enter the college classroom with our students, our brothers and sisters. The age difference can be up to ten years. Fortunately, we caught the last bus. It is said that Deng Xiaoping spoke for us and relaxed the admissions policy.
Thirdly, comrades who are one year older than us, that is, they went to college one year earlier than us, are called "old college students" by the society. They will naturally become the backbone of the work after the ten years of catastrophe and shoulder heavy responsibilities. . As for us, our academic qualifications are the same as those of people who are ten years younger than us. We have to compete with them for promotions, promotions, and applications. They are younger than us, and that is capital, the starting point of inequality.
Let’s not talk about other things, such as late marriage, late childbearing, having one child, being laid off, early retirement...
Just this year. Just that honest statement.
Is this the butterfly effect in life?
The butterfly effect was proposed by meteorologist Lorenz in 1963. The general idea is: A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest in South America, flapping its wings occasionally, may cause a tornado in Texas in two weeks. The reason is that the movement of the butterfly's wings causes changes in the air system around it and causes the generation of weak airflow, which in turn causes corresponding changes in the air or other systems around it, thus causing a chain reaction. Ultimately leading to drastic changes in other systems.
This effect shows that the results of the development of things are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. A very small deviation from the initial conditions will cause a huge difference in the results. The "butterfly effect" is used in sociology circles to explain: a bad and tiny mechanism, if not guided and adjusted in time, will bring great harm to society, jokingly called a "tornado" or "storm"; a good A tiny mechanism, as long as it is guided correctly, will produce a sensational effect, or a "revolution" after a period of hard work.
The butterfly effect in life
Nonlinear, commonly known as the "butterfly effect".
What is the butterfly effect? Let’s start with the findings of MIT meteorologist Lorenz. To predict weather, he used computers to solve 13 equations that simulated the Earth's atmosphere. In order to examine the results more carefully, he took out an intermediate solution, improved the accuracy and sent it back.
And when he came back to look at it after drinking a cup of coffee, he was surprised: what was originally a very small difference turned out to be a huge deviation! There was nothing wrong with the computer, so Lorenz decided that he had discovered a new phenomenon: "extreme instability of initial values", that is: "chaos", also known as the "butterfly effect", the flapping wings of an Asian butterfly , will cause tornadoes more powerful than strong winds to appear in the Americas in a few months! This discovery is so important that even scientists don’t understand it. Several scientific magazines have rejected his article, considering it “against common sense”: if similar initial values are substituted into a certain equation, the results should be similar. How could it be so far away?
Linear refers to the proportional and straight-line relationship between quantities, which represents regular and smooth movement in space and time; while non-linear refers to the non-proportional and non-linear relationship, which represents Irregular movements and mutations. Question: How many times is the visual acuity of two eyes that of one eye? It is easy to think of twice, but in fact it is 6-10 times! This is nonlinearity: 1+1 is not equal to 2.
Laser generation is non-linear! When the applied voltage is small, the laser is like an ordinary electric light, scattering light in all directions; but when the applied voltage reaches a certain value, a new phenomenon suddenly appears: the excited atoms seem to hear the command "look right" and emit light. The monochromatic light with the same phase and direction is a laser.
The characteristics of nonlinearity are: it cuts across various majors and penetrates into various fields. It can almost be said to be: "everywhere and all the time."
For example: chaos exists in the motion of celestial bodies; electricity, The oscillation of light and sound waves will plunge into chaos; the direction of the geomagnetic field has changed 16 times in 4 million years, also due to chaos. Even humans themselves are originally non-linear: Contrary to traditional thinking, the electroencephalogram and heart beating of healthy people are not regular, but chaotic. Chaos is the expression of vitality. The chaotic system responds to external stimuli. Faster than non-chaotic systems.
It can be seen that nonlinearity is all around us and we cannot hide from it.
In December 1979, Lorenz proposed in a speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington: A butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil may cause a disease in Texas, the United States. A tornado. His speech and conclusion left an extremely deep impression on people. Since then, the so-called "butterfly effect" has spread like wildfire and its reputation has spread far and wide.
The reason why the "Butterfly Effect" is fascinating, exciting and thought-provoking lies not only in its bold imagination and charming aesthetic color, but also in its profound scientific connotation and inherent philosophical charm. Chaos theory believes that in a chaotic system, very small changes in the initial conditions will cause extremely huge differences in its future state after continuous amplification. We can use a folk song circulated in the West to illustrate this vividly. This ballad says:
A missing nail breaks a shoe;
A broken shoe breaks a horse;
A horse was broken and a knight was wounded;
A knight was wounded and a battle was lost;
A battle was lost and an empire was lost.
Whether a nail on the horseshoe will be lost is a very small change in the initial conditions, but its "long-term" effect is the fundamental difference between the survival and death of an empire. This is the so-called "butterfly effect" in the military and political fields.
It’s a bit unbelievable, but it can indeed cause such negative consequences.
A wise leader must take precautions against the slightest. Seemingly trivial things may cause disintegration within the group. Wouldn't it be too late to regret it then?