Dr. Ian Malcolm: There. Look at this. See? See? I'm right again. Nobody could've predicted that Dr. Grant would suddenly, suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle. Dr. Ellie Sattler: Alan? Alan! [Jumps out of the vehicle] Dr. Ian Malcolm: There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos.
-Jurassic Park
When a catastrophe strikes, it seems sudden and random, it feels like it just happens without build up or warning. An earthquake occurs, and all you see is the destruction. You don't feel the pressure building, the stress mounting, until it is too late. When a plane crashes, you feel that families' pain and fear it might someday happen to you. But, you don't see how each small piece affects another. A loose screw in the engine that would not be a problem, except for under duress. An oil rig in the arctic accidentally breaks off a large piece on an iceberg. It falls into the water minisculely changing the temperature and tides, but it is enough. Starting a warm front that collides with the cold, causing large amounts of turbulence, right as the plane flies through. Shaking the screw from its precarious hold. The engine malfunctions and crashes into the sea, without any survivors. Leaving a young girl in Tokyo parentless.
Details make or break any moment in time.
This story begin as all stories do, inconsequentially enough. It begins with an argument between two old friends.
"You cheated, Parc."
"I did not."
"You did, too."
Such a petty argument with such wide spread consequences. One wonders if it had never happened, would the events that follow it ever occur?