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The Problem That Broke Physics (And Led to Chaos) | What the Physics?!

2026 · 6 min · English

The butterfly effect gets tossed around loosely, but this short traces it back to a real discovery: tiny rounding errors in a weather model that produced wildly different forecasts. It is a clear explanation of chaos theory using the accident that revealed it.

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Why it's free: Free on NOVA PBS's own channel; GBH produces NOVA for PBS.