Small fluctuations are often rapidly magnified into macroscopic fluctuations.
Computers sometimes contain elements designed to accelerate this process—in the form of entropy generators—which are used to seed random number generators—e.g. see:
I don’t think anyone is talking about impossible things becoming possible. The topic is whether considered paths in a decision can be legitimately considered to be possibilities—or whether they are actually impossible.
For the other perspective see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
Small fluctuations are often rapidly magnified into macroscopic fluctuations.
Computers sometimes contain elements designed to accelerate this process—in the form of entropy generators—which are used to seed random number generators—e.g. see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator#Physical_phenomena_with_quantum-random_properties
I don’t think anyone is talking about impossible things becoming possible. The topic is whether considered paths in a decision can be legitimately considered to be possibilities—or whether they are actually impossible.