![]() The chain of coincidences that led to this altered future seemed to be random and unpredictable, but when all the changes are tracked-a gargantuan, realistically impossible undertaking-order does emerge. And this, in its essence, is chaos theory: finding order in the chaos.Ĭhaos theory was immortalized in fiction by "The Sound of Thunder," a short story that tells the tale of a contemporary presidential election being affected significantly by the death of a pre-historic butterfly. But looked at over a long period of time, and tracking the branching changes in the planet that follow from it, all the chaos does produce a form of identifiable order. ![]() A coincidence spread across centuries led to this small change in my life what effect would burying this box in the sand have on my own future, or someone else's? What cascade of coincidences and events did I begin by overhearing that passage by Nietzsche?įrom an individual perspective, this seems to be an entirely random series of events. It was this particular passage from the aforementioned philosopher, overheard accidentally in a café in far-away California, which inspired the thought of burying something secret in an unusual place for a future friend to find. Why did I bury it? I liked part of the mystery, the novel-esque thought of recovering a secret box years down the line, and handing it to someone important to me, passing on another little tale in a rather eccentric life to a curious human spark.Īnother way of looking at the reasoning behind the burial of the box was espoused by the philosopher Nietzsche a few hundred years ago: "Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music". ![]() It remained above the high tide mark of the azure, almost untouched waters for years. I buried a box underneath the sand on a remote Japanese island four years ago, containing a message, an item of mine, and a question scrawled spontaneously on a tiny piece of paper. This is a guest post by Robin George Andrews, a British PhD in volcanology.
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