Truth is stranger than fiction

It is strange how in fiction we can write about technology, such as hover boards and jetpacks. Which seem to be the most amazing, unrealistic and strange things in books. However, it is stranger yet that we have the ability and technology to be able to create these things. In fiction, none of the physical processes is required. It is simply an idea that has been thought of. In reality, however, there needs to be a huge amount of strange and wonderful kit required to build these things. Take for example the hover board. In fiction, it is a great idea that gives the user the ability to move around freely without walking. Although the technology to create a floating hover board does not yet exist we have got a well-known variation. To create these an entirely new set of gyroscopes had to be created. Surely these strange things that few people really, truly understand and could replicate are stranger and more wonderful than simply the idea. Therefore, the truth is indeed stranger than fiction. There are also some incredible stories in nature that seem to be the root of quite a few fictional stories. There are many cases of eggs being laid inside a creature"s body. Once these eggs hatch they often release a chemical which forces the host animal to complete and action and release the creature into the wild. A good example of this is the fluke Euhaplorchis californiensis. It begins its life in an ocean-dwelling horn snail, where it produces larvae that then seek their next host, a killifish. Once it finds a fish, the parasite latches on to its gills and makes its way to the brain. But this isn't its final stop. The fluke needs to get inside the gut of a water bird in order to reproduce. So, inside the killifish's brain, the fluke releases chemicals that cause the fish to shimmy, jerk, and jump. This attracts the attention of water birds which then catch the fish and allow the circle to happen again. (This information is credited to national geographic). This is the root for many horror stories. Horror stories create complicated and elaborate disasters to explain the existence of the zombie creatures. Yet they already occur naturally. The truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Fiction is artificially unexpected in order to create suspense and excitement but the real world doesn"t need any artificial help. Chaos theory gives us a mathematical way to model how unpredictable and strange the world really is. It reveals how some things that might seem very simple " earth orbits the sun, or how a leaky tap drips " are in fact incredibly complex and impossible to predict. Our weather is another example of a chaotic system. No matter how well we can model the weather, and no matter how accurately we can measure the current weather, tiny errors and fluctuations are quickly amplified, making it impossible to predict the weather accurately more than two or three weeks in future. This is famously known as the "Butterfly Effect". A butterfly flapping its wings in South America could have a dramatic effect on a storm brewing in Europe two weeks later. Nothing in fiction can match how beautiful, complicated and strange the real world is.