208k views
5 votes
Travis warns that a mistake could alter American as we know it because

1 Answer

6 votes

In the story "A Sound of Thunder," Ray Bradbury describes a world where time travel has become possible, and there are companies that sell travel packages to the past. One of those sells a hunting trip, in which people go back to the Late Cretaceous period in order to hunt a dinosaur.

The name of the hunting guide is Travis, and before leaving, he warns visitors that even the smallest of mistakes could alter their world as they know it, because a small change of events could detonate a series of changes that are impossible to predict. In the story, one of the characters steps on a butterfly, which causes enormous changes in the present. This phenomenon is often called the "butterfly effect."

User Rundekugel
by
9.0k points
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.