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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury is an American fiction writer, and is known for dozens of novels concerning aspects of space and time travel.
References by Episode
- In Fallout, Hiro Nakamura says "What if I step on a bug? I could change history..." when viewing one of Isaac's paintings. This is a reference to the 1952 Ray Bradbury story, "A Sound of Thunder", in which a group of big game hunters travel back in time to hunt dinosaurs for sport. During an expedition, one hunter falls off of the designated path, and accidentally crushes the world's first butterfly. When the party returns to the present, they finds a joyless world run by a facist dictator.
- The term butterfly effect is the term for describing the outcome resulting from small changes in initial conditions in a chaotic system; it is typically described as a butterfly flapping its wings could be the initial wind that eventually causes a hurricaine. The term has been popularlized in modern entertainment as a method of describing the effects of time travel (the mutable timeline theory). Ray Bradbury's usage of the butterfly predates this scientific theory by about 10 years, and its naming is a coincidence.
External Links
- Ray Bradbury on Wikipedia
- Butterfly effect on Wikipedia
- "A Sound of Thunder" on Wikipedia