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'Cause event'

Just think back into the past happenings in your life. As you breeze through the events, you will find that each event will be somehow connected to another random-seeming event that happens sometime later. The previous event would be a precursor and cause to the next event, and the next... If the 'cause event' does not occur or if we change it, the 'result event' which occurred would never happen. A single event may thus change an entire sequence of happenings. A single decision taken by a single human being may thus alter the fate of another event happening anywhere in the universe, acting as a trigger. I thought of all this when I watched 'Final Destination' movie and realised that most things that happen to us now are the results of an event that would have happened in the past, a day before, a month or years ago. I don't know why but I feel it's like a card touched makes all other cards to fall.

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  1. hmm ... u r rediscovering a fascinating but well-studied phenomena called The Butterfly Effect - a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings at some distant place & time in the past - its about chaotic behavior of complex systems!

    All real world systems, including that of human social system, is complex & chaotic ... welcome to the fascinating world of Chaos & Fractals !

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  2. ... the natural evolution of thought of a mind fascinated by the cause-effect of life events would be to fantasize going back in time and change events that could change one's current life for the better ??
    ... this universal fantasy is explored with all its implication in this master piece., "The End of Eternity", by the celebrated sci-fi writer, a scientist himself, Isaac Asimov -
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity

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