How can I reenact the “Butterfly Effect”?
The butterfly effect imaginatively exaggerates the consequences of effects of events of negligible magnitude. The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events seems first to have appeared in a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel. There are great movers and shakers of world events, but they are not butterflies. They are people who work hard to create ideas, inventions, institutions, artwork, music, and better technologies to improve the lives of everyone. The greatest historical example is Jesus, whose brief three-year ministry transformed civilization so drastically that the world dates time from his birth.
