Butterfly effect in popular culture

[13] In the 1990 film Havana, the character played by Robert Redford states, "A butterfly can flutter its wings over a flower in China and cause a hurricane in the Caribbean", and scientists "can even calculate the odds".

[16] The 2009 film Mr. Nobody incorporates the butterfly effect[17] and the concept of smaller events that result in larger changes altering a person's life.

[19] The 2021 film Needle in a Timestack is described in a review by The Guardian as having a plot where the character played by Leslie Odom Jr. "sets off a calamitous butterfly effect that results in, not the survival of dinosaurs, not a deadly plague, not an Allied loss of the second world war, but him being married to Freida Pinto instead of Cynthia Erivo.

[25] The 2015 video game Until Dawn features the butterfly effect as a central plot point, using the concept to describe how player choices can drastically affect the outcome of events.

Recently, an intriguing hypothesis has been proposed to draw a parallel between this phenomenon and the 'butterfly effect,' which is a concept from chaos theory involving the sensitive dependence on initial conditions (SDIC).

Additionally, systems containing coexisting chaotic and non-chaotic elements may exhibit a dependence of final states on starting conditions, complicating the task of identifying the CDIC interval.

[39] In the field of meteorology, techniques such as conducting multiple ensemble simulations with slight variations in initial conditions or using several different models are employed to extend and determine these predictability horizons.