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There are too many inputs to the formula and even the small ones matter more than you
think. And you can never measure them precisely enough. But! If you could, you could
write a formula to predict the weather, the future, people.”
“But chaos theory says you can’t?”
“Yup.”
“You needed a whole branch of mathematics to tell you that people are unpredictable?”
“Had that figured out, did you?”
“Books, Olly! I learned it from books.”
He laughs, rolls onto his side, and laughs some more. He’s infectious and I’m laughing,
too, my whole body responding to him. I watch for the dimple that I’m no longer
supposed to be paying attention to. I want to put my finger into it and keep him smiling
forever.
Maybe we can’t predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am
certainly going to fall in love with Olly.
It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.