!PLEASE READ! This project automatically configures itself to work on both turbowarp, and scratch with no issue. The scratch version contains 350 pendulums, but the turbowarp version includes 8000. https://turbowarp.org/1164254749 This was inspired by a YouTube video I found while trying to get ideas for the project challenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7nMP-MYyIc This is also the most mathematically sophisticated project I have ever created, because having never been in a contest before means that I have never had this much motivation to make a good project. This has been a great way to show the side of me not everyone likes to see, that I love physics. (I know, eww)
The butterfly effect, an underlying principle of chaos, describes how a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state (meaning there is sensitive dependence on initial conditions). A metaphor for this behavior is that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause or prevent a tornado in Texas. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory)
