Rabbi Marc Gellman, an avid golfer, a sometime contributor to Golf Digest, and one of the people who lobbied long and hard to get the U.S. Open to Bethpage in 2000, writes for Newsweek on matters non-golf for the most part. His Thanksgiving column, while having nothing to do with golf or Bethpage, is worth your time. Here's how it begins:
"The butterfly effect" is a phrase that came to Hollywood and our culture from chaos theory and the abstract mathematical models of Edward Lorenz. The idea is that even the smallest alteration of the first cause in a series can produce a vast change in the final result. So in theory the slight alteration of the tiny breeze caused by a butterfly's wing could eventually change the course of a great hurricane. That is the theory. It always sounded ridiculous to me, until now.
I won't steal Gellman's story, but I think you'll find, as I did, that it's a perfect example of the butterfly effect....and worth sharing.
Happy Thanksgiving.
--Bob Carney
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