According to classical physics and the laws of Isaac Newton, it should be easy to predict the behaviour of objects throughout the universe with relative ease.

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But in 1961, a meteorologist unwittingly discovered this was not the case – that there was a lot more uncertainty around us. Here's how chaos theory and its butterfly effect, has changed the way we think about our Universe.

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