The quote "Who controls the past, controls the future" by George Orwell means that the things that you do in the past would have an effect on what happens in your future. So the cause of the past has an effect on the future. In the story "The Sound of Thunder" and this quote relates because one of the guys had failed to stay on the path and went off and when he went off he had stepped on the butterfly which cause a domino effect into the future.
Cause- the reason for an action or condition
Effect-something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence:
Affect-something that has an influnce on something
Chaos theory-a field of study in mathematics, physics, and philosophy studying the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions
Butterfly Effect- a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial condictions in chaos theory namely, a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere
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