Butterfly Effect is the explanation of a very small occurrence which can unimaginably effect a big change from just a simple decision or event which may seem unconnected but yet phenomenally interconnected without a good reason. Butterfly Effect is the notion of a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a tornado somewhere far away. 

This was coined by mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz.
The Butterfly Effect showed that the world and in fact our universe and beyond is deeply interconnected. 

In The Vocation of Man (1800), Johann Gottlieb Fichte says “you could not remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby … changing something throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole”.

The 100th Monkey Effect was observed when a behavioral study was done on a troupe of Japanese monkeys known as Macaca fuscata on the island of Kojima. 

This happened in the year of 1952 and observations continued into 1958. It started with one group of monkeys learning to wash potatoes before eating. The behavior was passed down and learnt among the group which was not near anywhere we can label as strange. But strangely, something unexplainable did indeed occur. The scientists observed that the behavioral pattern of washing potatoes before eating spreaded across the waters to monkeys on nearby islands without any contact between the troupes! 

It was observed that when a critical number was reached, there was initiation of new awareness which could be transmitted through mental consciousness even across vast distances. It showed that when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this may be communicated from mind to mind. This obviously somehow also correlates to the fact that we are interconnected on a level where we might not see, but clearly is.

Quantum Entanglement. This is a complex phenomenon in physics that describes an invisible link between distant quantum objects that allows one to instantly affect the other beyond the speed of light. It defies conventional physics where deterministic results prevail. Albert Einstein famously dismissed this idea of quantum entanglement as “spooky action at a distance.” Entanglement is seen in particles across vast distances even millions of light years apart, seemingly within a matrix across space and time with no way of physical connection. Even though Einstein famously quoted before that “God does not play dice with the Universe”. It may seem odd that in Chaos theory, there was an apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnection, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals and self-organization. Chaos may not be chaos but order afterall. 

In other words, there was so much more than what conventional science or what we were taught to believe in as real. 

Interestingly, this term of The Tipping Point came about when Malcolm Gladwell first published his book called “The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” He defines a tipping point as “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point”.

As he states in “The Law of the Few”, certain people are especially effective at spreading an infectious idea, product or behavior.  “The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.” According to Gladwell, economists call this the “80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the ‘work’ will be done by 20 percent of the participants”

In his book, he described the small-world experiment done by social psychologist, Stanley Milgram. Milgram distributed letters to 160 students in Nebraska. Asking them to pass the letters to anyone in their own opinion which they might think that the letters would be socially closer to in reaching the target. The target is a stockbroker in Boston whom they were not personally known to. The study found that it took an average of six links to deliver each letter. At the end of the experiment, it was found that just three friends of the stockbroker provided the final link for half of the letters that arrived successfully. In another word, the 80/20 principle did apply here,  which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the ‘work’ will be done by 20 percent of the participants. 

With all these being said, the connection with Butterfly Effect, 100th Monkey Effect and Quantum Entanglement, it is clear and undeniable that we are connected by an invisible link beyond our normal perception of how everything appears to us. Without the matrix which is actually an invisible web that connects all of us intricately together, these phenomenons could never have been explained or understood with our limited understanding of what the world is to us. What we do here actually affects someone or something there. Hence, with the understanding of The Tipping Point, let’s start sharing what we learnt to effect a big transformation out there! Let us be the 20 percent to spread wisdom and love by making a ripple into the cosmos to make a big impact for humanity! Be conscious of our thoughts, words and actions. We can inevitably build with conscious goodwill or we can destroy through negativity and ignorance.