Posted by The physicist David Ruelle gives a convincing demonstration that suspending the gravitational effect on our atmosphere of one electron at the limit of the observable universe would take no more than two weeks to make a difference in Earth’s weather equivalent to having rain rather than sun during a picnic.
That factoid is from Chances Are…, a really wonderful tour of probability. And I thought butterflies flapping their wings in Tokyo had big effects.
May 31, 2007