The Eyelash Effect
. It is said that a butterfly flapping its wings can have a profound effect on distant weather: In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. Wikipedia There is just such a profound effect that many of us have experienced firsthand. I call it the eyelash effect. It works like this: Boy sees girl. Girl sees boy who sees her. Girl