yeah.. like.. the universe.. and shit... man

[frankenstoner]

I agree. I know what you mean. The world would be different. I feel the reason why with famous people is the way the media portrays them at any given moment, but it's pretty typically consistant. For unfamous folks it's still simliar though, you are right. You could meet someone at a party that changes your life forever. And if you did not go to the party, you're life would be the same. You can't catch fish sitting on the couch eating chips watching football.

[Donnie2020]

to answer the question, no

there is nothing new to what you talk about :D

[MatzahBri]

aaw dont you sound like your sister,, bless...

haha

x

[stunninstar2010]

that makes a lot of sense. I've thought of that a lot before. There is a lot of things that I see if I wouldn't have done, my life would've gone down a way different path. My family's life would have too. But yea, it's sensible!

[JessicaKirbyshire]

WOW your so much like your sister!

[lonesorme]

You are "LIKE" so deep, and "LIKE" so cool, and "LIKE" so right on, and "LIKE" so bad ass, and "LIKE" so rad,

and "LIKE" so fuckin "STUPID"....... Shut the FUCK UP..... and stop saying "LIIKE"

[speppers]

Can we just see if we change the universe if we ever meet? I'll take the risk.

[SuperJitan]

ok! :D

[KlaxonCow]

Oh, yeah, sure, that totally happens. All the time. With absolutely everything.

No, really, that's what "Chaos Theory" is all about - you're talking about "the Butterfly Effect" there.

A clever French mathematical bloke called Poincaré accidentally discovered it with realising.

He was trying to solve the so-called "three body" problem.

[KlaxonCow]

That is, if you've got yourself Newton's laws of motion and his theory of gravity, you should be able to work out how the planets and shit revolve around each other by just plugging some numbers into the equations.

Now, if you do this with two bodies - like two planets or the Moon and the Earth or whatever - then you get nice clear results and you can accurately predict how these bodies are going to move around and spin around in each other's gravity and everything like that.

Which is cool.

[KlaxonCow]

But there was a problem. When he tried to extend that and do the same thing with three bodies, Poincaré noticed something really rather odd.

With two bodies, if your measurements were slightly out - you only worked things out to 2 decimal places instead of 3 decimal places - then the results weren't much different.

But when you tried the same thing with three bodies, even the tiniest difference in your measurements would eventually lead to completely different results.

[KlaxonCow]

He'd redo the equations with measurements that are only slightly more accurate - to 3 decimal places instead of 2 - and then would end up with a radically different result.

This was such a bizarre thought to Poincaré that he thought he'd just fucked up, excused it away and didn't look into it any further.

But he should have because then he'd have been the discoverer of Chaos Theory.

[KlaxonCow]

It was weather forecasters who eventually discovered it. Because, in order to make a weather prediction, they stick measurements of what the weather is like at the moment and then use "models" (based on all their observations of what the weather did in the past) to guess at what the weather is most likely to do next.

Now, this stuff involves a major amount of number crunching.

The Met Office has big supercomputers to plough through all the numbers and equations to make their predictions.

[KlaxonCow]

And they noticed much the same thing Poincaré noticed - with even the tiniest difference in the measurements, then the predictions for what the weather would be like a month's time was completely and radically different.

Unlike Poincaré, though, folks looked more deeply into it and discovered something revolutionary that completely upsets all of mankind's notions that he can predict or control anything.

Chaos Theory.

[KlaxonCow]

Basically, they discovered that you could have very simple systems with very simple completely deterministic rules - and, yet, the tiniest imprecision in your measurements can throw your predictions of what the system will do next completely out of the window.

What they discovered is that that thought you're having right now about whether the universe would shoot off in a completely different direction if something small was slightly different was a mathematical reality.

[KlaxonCow]

The so-called "butterfly effect" - where, as the classic example goes, you've got a butterfly and it flaps its wings.

And that displaces some air that, if it hadn't flapped its wings, wouldn't have been displaced.

The tiniest, smallest, gentlest, most fragile and trivial change you can imagine - a butterfly flapping its wings.

But that the tiny change it makes doing that will, indeed, reverberate and reverberate into infinity.

[KlaxonCow]

The air that was displaced gets blown by the wind. Because the air is in a slightly different configuration than it would have been if the butterfly hadn't flapped its wings, the air molecules end up in very slightly different places.

And that affects other winds and the tiny cause can produce a bigger effect. And that tiny effect produces another bigger effect.

[KlaxonCow]

And it just keeps rolling through the numbers and the equations - the change snowballing, more and more air is displaced into places that it otherwise would never have been if the butterfly hadn't flapped its wings.

And, so the example goes, this eventually accumulates and accumulates until it causes a tornado on the other side of the world.

[KlaxonCow]

As you put it, the universe just splits and splits and splits as every tiny little difference makes everything after it go off in a completely different direction.

And Chaos Theory is mathematical fact. That is exactly what happens.

And it tells us something truly profound - every single action, no matter how big or small, reverberates FOREVER. Into the infinity.

That there is no such thing, as far as the universe is concerned, as "a small action" or an inconsequential action.

[KlaxonCow]

Yes, if you decided not to go out of your room and bump into your sister, for example, then, of course, your sister wouldn't have stopped to chat to you.

But she was on the way out to the shops.

So, by delaying even by two or three seconds, when she eventually got to the shop, she'd be standing in a different place in the queue to get served at the counter.

Which would mean the person behind the counter would have to deal with customers in a different order.

[KlaxonCow]

If you hadn't bumped into your sister outside your room, then what would have happened is that your sister would have been in front of this other guy.

And he recognised her off YouTube, so when he reached the counter he would have said "hey, is that the girl off the Internet?" to the person behind the counter.

[KlaxonCow]

But because you bumped into her, she's delayed three seconds which places her behind that bloke in the queue, instead of in front of him, and he doesn't look to see who's behind him in the queue.

So he never asks the person behind the counter about her.

[KlaxonCow]

And so on. And so forth. Into infinity.

To put it in your terms, the universe just splits and splits and splits. Forever.

That chance encounter irrevocably changes the future forever - and as the radio waves and light from the Earth radiates out into space, and you've completely altered the future, where man travels out to meet aliens - it eventually changes the entire universe.

[KlaxonCow]

And it's not just that one tiny change. It's any tiny change. All tiny changes.

All of them echo into the infinity and clash with each other - and that further changes the future, which echoes again and clashes with something else - and that changes it even more.

And the maths tells us that this is exactly how it all actually works. For real.

It's not just a mad thought at 2am - that is the truth and the reality right there.

[KlaxonCow]

If that shoe had smacked Bush in the face, then it would have changed everything. And I probably wouldn't have stumbled - looking through my older subscriptions for videos I've missed - to even be here to post this.

And, of course, you definitely wouldn't have said "what if the shoe hit Bush" because in that alternative possibility which could have happened instead, it did hit him in the face.

[KlaxonCow]

You'd either have not posted this video at all - which would have totally affected everyone who's now watched it, because they'd be watching some other video or doing something else instead - or made a completely different one about needing more cowbells and lesbians or something.

Every action, every thought, every atom in the universe changes it forever.

It's totally fucking bonkers insane, innit?

[KlaxonCow]

"When I stop to consider what terrible consequences can come from small things...

...I'm tempted to think that there are no small things"

- Bruce Barton

[KlaxonCow]

p.s. You need to watch the movie "The Butterfly Effect", if you haven't already.

All sci-fi that involves time travel usually completely ignores the butterfly effect. It acts like small changes don't make much, if any impact, on anything.

Basically, if Marty McFly met his parents, then he'd really have irrevocably fucked up the future forever - and there'd be no possible way he could ever put it back.

[KlaxonCow]

But "the Butterfly Effect" movie does it differently. It's a time travel movie WITH the butterfly effect included - and it's a total head fuck.

Though, it's a work of genius. Highly recommended, if you ain't seen it. :D

[KlaxonCow]

p.p.s. I was severely disappointed by the lack of lesbians in this video. Please do better next time. ;D

[zebidee55]

I figure the best way to deal with all of this is to just run with your instincts. A lot of times, one course of action seems to feel better than another. Pay attention to that.

[smallstegosaurus]

All I know is, I wish the shoe HAD hit Bush in the face. I think it would have made a lot of people very happy.

[SimpleyRachel]

its like on a double shot a love (dont know if they have it in england) but this girl got voted out and then after she got voted out got into a car crash and dies, so if they would have kept her she would still been alivve. :\

[LaughLoveSmilePeace]

sounds like the butterfly effect, have you seen it? its a really good movie

anyway yeh i definitely think about that, how one small decision could totally change our whole future...crazy

[riomeraz]

ok...this might sound like i'm making fun, but I'm not...anyways...are you high?

[puffychu]

I get what you mean! I think about that all the time

[kingjimsixsix5]

thought provoking. millions of options with infinite paths, that E=mc2 question, time and space messes with your head if you ponder it to long. the question is, is our path set out, even though there are a million different things that could happen, is it our destiny to "go to the party" or do something else. what do you think?

[dredzman]

So, how many spliffs did you have before you made the vid? lol.

[yellowgreen98]

i know well what you mean, i was a long time ago, to meet this girl, and i really liked her a lot, but i got there late, and she was all mad and angry at me, i all think i have got there early, maybe we could be together.

[lalalemon15]

i think like this all the time. mostly when I'm high. but all the time. it's refreshing to know that you do too.

[BenevolentLaughter]

uhhh... *brainspasmexplosionorgasm*

wait... orgasm?

[Lauuraxx]

oh em ge. yeah, the butterfly effect. youre not crazy. i think about that all the time. one little thing changing the course of, uh everything. ;] its crazy to imagine.

[TeenageOutlaw]

mhm, thought provoking.

[davidsben]

The moral of the video.... don't do drugs kids!

[NusaCat]

And if your Dad had never met your Mom, where would you be today?

[PandaaTv]

wait wat just happened

[zacksmovies]

TURN ON A LIGHT!

[SuperJitan]

IT WAS 2AM

[Toralya]

Screen or it didn't happen!

[reallymanreally]

are you high?

[2tallmccall]

Every time I watch 28 Weeks Later (well I've only seen it twice but you get the idea) I am constantly reminded of you when I see the younger brother character who comes back to England. Maybe it's just the long hair and English accent. Anyway, you should check it out, I think you may agree.

[SuperJitan]

yes, he's english and has long hair. but i can act better then him. that film is reprehensible

[OctoberRoad]

I think the Iraqi journalist should have shouted a catch phrase before throwing those shits. "The shoe's on the other foot!" or "Suck shoe!" "Taste the dirt of a thousand miles!" "From my foot to your face!" "Hey, Bush! I'm going to hit you with this!" I mean, there are loads of options right there. What an unoriginal bastard. Iraqis throw like women.

[BenevolentLaughter]

lol, taste the dirt of a thousand miles. that's amazing.

[eshninerforest]

entropy? maybe. you got me thinking. :)

[GiullarediDio]

I hope you are not intoxicated in some way, young man.

[dropitall11]

that was so sexy..i liked that shit.

[Paperlilies]

eeeeeeemo

just kidding!!

I think that there are infinite universes! And every single different possibility can and does happen in each one.

[throjo]

The problem I've always had with this theory is, where does all the infinite energy come from to create all these universes? People might say from a Supreme Being, but wouldn't that cancel out divine intervention or free will if every possibility gets played out anyway? Does God have OCD?

[NusaCat]

That's the great thing about infinities...theres always a greater infinity!

[speppers]

My sister just called me and asked if I was done being emo because of my video I just posted. It must be a sister thing.

[thewirrow]

so may things i like about this!

i like the beginning when u dont realise theres a cam and then u look up.. like a 70's self improvement video! *reading a book..look up... "oh...hey there! do u ever wonder..." etc.

also.

im gona make a series of animated 'just stuff in my head's!

because i like this video