Chinese name
chain-reacting
Foreign name
chain-reacting
pronounce
Lian su fen yang
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Metaphor related things change accordingly.
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Chain reaction butterfly effect
It means that in a dynamic system, small changes in initial conditions can drive a long-term huge chain reaction of the whole system. This is a chaotic phenomenon. This phenomenon is called the butterfly effect. The butterfly effect was put forward by meteorologist Lorenz 1963. In the tropical rain forest of Amazon River basin in South America, a butterfly occasionally flaps its wings, which may trigger a tornado in Texas within two weeks.
The reason is that the movement of butterfly wings leads to the change of the surrounding air system, producing weak airflow, which in turn will cause the corresponding change of the surrounding air or other systems, causing a chain reaction, and finally leading to great changes in other systems. This effect shows that the result of the development of things is extremely sensitive to the initial conditions, and the smallest deviation of the initial conditions will cause great differences in the results. Butterfly effect is a concept in chaos theory. It refers to the dependence on the sensitivity of initial conditions. Small differences at the input end will quickly amplify to the output end. Butterfly effect is ubiquitous in economic life.
The "butterfly effect" theory proves China's interpretation of The Book of Rites more than 300 years ago by empirical means: "The Book of Changes says,' A gentleman is cautious at the beginning, but a tiny difference makes a thousand miles wrong.' "The ancients believed that small changes would have a great impact on the future, so they were obsessed with Wang Fu to change the future fortune.
In 2003, a suspected case of mad cow disease was found in the United States, which immediately brought a devastating hurricane to the newly recovered American economy. It was the unlucky "mad cow" that flapped the "butterfly wings". First, the US beef industry, with a total output value of US$ 654.38+0.75 billion and 654.38+0.4 million employees, was hit. As the main feed source of cattle owners, the American corn and soybean industries have also been affected, and their futures prices have shown a downward trend.
But in the end, it was the decline of American consumers' confidence in beef products that contributed to the biggest loss of the "mad cow disease hurricane". In today's globalization, this panic not only caused the depression of domestic catering enterprises in the United States, but also spread to the whole world. At least 1 1 countries have declared an emergency ban on the import of American beef, and even the residents in China and Guangdong, who are far away from the other side of the ocean, stay away from western-style restaurants. This is reminiscent of bird flu at that time. Avian influenza, which was first discovered in individual countries, quickly spread all over the world. Even in areas or countries where bird flu has not been found, people will "talk about the color change of chickens."
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For another example, can you imagine the relationship between smoking in an American and inflation in China? Suppose a person in the United States smokes, accidentally throws unlit cigarette butts on the bedside, and then goes out to work. About 20 minutes later, cigarette butts slowly ignited the sheets, and the fire became bigger and bigger, gradually spreading to neighbors, causing a series of explosions of gas tanks.
At this time, Americans have been frightened by the "terrorist attack", but the perpetrator (the person who threw the cigarette butt) forgot to throw the cigarette butt, and was temporarily listed as a "terrorist attack" because he could not find the reason at the moment.
In this way, frightened people sold their stocks in succession, causing the stock market to plummet. People's declining consumer confidence has affected the entire American economy and eventually led to the depreciation of the US dollar. As the dollar continues to depreciate, the price of basic raw materials denominated in dollars rises, and the price of RMB linked to the dollar also rises accordingly. Therefore, the rising commodity prices based on raw materials triggered the cost-driven inflation in China. "Chain reaction" is a scientific term, and its philosophical meaning is basically the same as that of Chinese vocabulary, that is, as long as one of a series of related things changes, the others will change accordingly. Babel's law is a kind of social psychological effect, which says that when a person experiences a strong stimulus, the stimulus given again becomes insignificant to him or her. As far as psychological feelings are concerned, the first big stimulus can dilute the second small stimulus. For example, a newspaper that was originally one yuan has become ten yuan, and you will definitely find it unacceptable; Moreover, the original 10000 yuan computer has increased by 100 yuan, and you won't have any big reaction. So, what changes is not the facts, but your feelings.
Chain reaction.
Babel's law is a "cunning" law. Its effect can be tried and tested in almost every aspect. Because, whether physically or psychologically, people always have a mechanism of gradual adaptation. People with brains will use Babel's law to ease the resistance to doing things for themselves.