OED SF database (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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"to butterfly", not in OED or OED SF database

To implement "the butterfly effect".  OED has [1972] and 1979 for
"Butterfly effect", but should somehow reference Ray Bradbury's story
"The Sound of Thunder" (published in _Collier's_ June 28, 1952), in
which a time traveller steps on a butterfly in the time of dinosaurs,
and changes human history.

 Jun 17 2006, 7:32 pm
"If you really want to butterfly Heinlein, have him
elected to the California State Assembly in 1938. "

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/msg/d47d4a990fbd7e40?
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