I'm learning about complex system analysis for class (tomorrow - I'm actually supposed to pinpoint a complex system to analyze).
I'm still really fuzzy on exactly what a complex system analysis is, other than a way to analyze a complex problem...
But I figured I'd see what Wikipedia had to say about the CSA...
Among other helpful things, the wikis found it important to stress that the Butterfly Effect tangentially related to complex system analysis) is not really like time travel - so that movie a few years ago really got it all wrong, as did Michael J. Fox.
Thank goodness for Wikipedia. Thanks for clearing that up guys.
Thusly,
Main article: Butterfly effect in popular culture
The term is sometimes used in popular media dealing with the idea of time travel, usually inaccurately. Most time travel depictions simply fail to address butterfly effects. According to the actual theory, if history could be "changed" at all (so that one is not invoking something like the Novikov self-consistency principle which would ensure a fixed self-consistent timeline), the mere presence of the time travelers in the past would be enough to change short-term events (such as the weather) and would also have an unpredictable impact on the distant future. Therefore, no one who travels into the past could ever return to the same version of reality he or she had come from and could have therefore not been able to travel back in time in the first place, which would create a phenomenon known as a time paradox.
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Complex systems analysis is like port security...understanding how goods are shipped from one place to another and how to keep things safe. Like what do we need to do to keep bad people from screwing up supply chain by either blowing up ship in US port or ship to ship transfer to 100% cargo screening which could stop global shipping collapsing global economy. Analysing these systems in order to find ways to stop the bad things from happening.
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