Thursday, October 13, 2022, Amanda Rafkin
The Butterfly Effect The Butterfly Effect , illustrated in the preceding 3 minute video, is a metaphor for the key idea behind a science called CHAOS THEORY : a small initial event in one location can be greatly amplified through a series of chain reactions that ultimately result in a very large event happening very far away . The classic example is that of a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon River basin , ultimately causing a storm in Siberia . Today veteran constructor ( NYT and LAT ) Amanda Rafkin riffs on Chaos Theory with a theme taken not from science, but from the dark arts . Here's her reveal: 60A. Power that enables the Scarlet Witch to rewrite reality, and a hidden feature of the answers to the starred clues?: CHAOS MAGIC . As I'm sure we're all aware, the Scarlet Witch is a denizen of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and not someone you'd want to mess with: ...