Butterflies cause mass chaos. Everyone knows this, just as everyone knows what 1 plus 1 equals (1). When a butterfly flaps its wings, the little brush of air it flaps away gently grows and becomes bigger and bigger until a huge giant tornado is formed, causing mass destruction and utter chaos. And yet, even though everyone knows this, no one has ever attempted to fix the problem. Why those tornado-making monstrosities aren't extinct yet, I'll never know.
In conclusion, small events cause big events. So what would cause temporal anomalies? Something that big and strange must have its miniature equivalent, or else the whole of the world as we know it would shatter from breakage of the unbreakable laws of the universe. Here would be the equation.
Tornadoes are to butterfly wings as temporal anomalies are to (?).
The answer, my beloved readers, is in this short little story.
Little Bobby liked pie.
Little Bobby liked cake.
But before Little Bobby could eat his pie and cake, he was forced to eat his dinner. Which were beans.
Little Bobby had to eat many beans before he could eat his much wanted pie and cake. Therefore, on the following day of school, Little Bobby was farting quite a lot.
It just so happened that his morphic resonance field was acting up that day.
It happened in English class.
"Bobby, could you tell me if this word is- " PPPHHHHHFFFFTTT.
(A giant energy wave seemingly appearing out of nowhere in the far-off galaxy of Pretophut, endangering the nearby planet Terotch.)
"Would you tell me if this word is-" PPPPPPHHHHHUFFFFFTTT.
(A billion people living on the planet Terotch watched in terror as the flickering bright light of energy intensified and traveled more rapidly towards their planet.)
"Now really, Bobby, do you have to be that-" PPHHHHHFFFFTTT.
(The Terotchian's Starfleet had just barely managed to control and detain the first two waves when another wave hit, destroying their entire fleet.)
"If your going to keep on playing your little game, Bobby, I'll have to-" PPPHHHHHFFFFFFFFFT. PPHHFFFFFTTT PHHHFFFFFT PHHFFFFTTTTT PPPHHHFFFFT PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPHHHHHHHHHHHHFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTT.
(Wave after wave of energy struck the defenseless planet, killing off millions of people and transforming the planet into nothing more than a mass of rubble.)
"Bobby, go to the principle's office."
"But-"
"Go."
As Bobby slowly lumbered out of the classroom, one last PPPPHHHHHHFFFFFTTT escaped.
(A time thread fluxuated in the area around what was formally the planet Terotch. Time folded back in that part of space, causing the destroyed planet to reappear again in present time with everything as it was before (except for a few extinct animals that were for some reason alive and walking again.))
As you can see, small events cause big events. They might not happen all the time, but they do happen sometimes.
So be nice to all farting fat boys. 'Cause you never know; they might be having an unusually active morphic-resonance field that day too.
(1) At least, I hope they do.