The Butterfly Effect In Ray Bradbury's 'A Sound Of Thunder'

When reading the story “A Sound of Thunder”, it was convincing but there was a lack of scientific evidence to prove him correct. Although the claim was backed, it could have been supported completely if he included the other few components that would’ve helped to prove the claim ultimately. These left out key factors were Einstein’s theory of relativity, and time dilation. Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” portrays the realistic aspects of his story believably to an extent because he only included one scientific aspect, the butterfly effect

The only scientific aspect Bradbury included in the story, was the butterfly effect. This helped the claim because it is stated in “The Physics of Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder’” that “the notion that if you change something in the past, you create a fork in the road of time and a new universe branches off in which the consequences of the crushed butterfly play themselves out.” This goes along with his story because after the butterfly was crushed, when the characters came back

If Bradbury included Einstein’s theory of relativity in “A Sound of Thunder”, it would have supported the claim completely because it shows “time passes at different rates for people who are moving relative to one another - although the effect only become large when you get close to the speed of light”, as explained in “Is Time Travel Possible?” This statement goes along with his stance because according to “Time Travel to the Future is Real”, “Einstein’s special theory of relativity is the “gold standard” of theories.” This theory helps to show that time travel is possible and can happen according to science. If this was included in the story, it would have been even more evidence to make his story seem more accurate. The addition of this specific scientific knowledge would have assisted the reader to interpret the story to be