[XCSSA] Plasma fractal...

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

Just a thought-- we aren't actually sure if real world fractals have a limit
at the atomic level-- since beyond that...all is quanta, and beyond
that...well... who knows.. Calabi–Yau manifolds may or may not be
self-similar... and beyond that all the brane theory stuff is just lost on
me...

In my brain, quanta foam "feels"  like the archetypal real world fractal,
England's coastline--- mathematically it's self-similar, but to the naked
eye unpredictably so... to follow the metaphor-- at the edges between the
atomic and quanta-- it's very much "recognizable" and mathematically
predictable (although fractal math has nothing to do with the math involved
in the probability math of quantum mechanics... that I know of) but
maddening to think about.

I would have never gotten myself involved in computers.... had it not been
for James Gleick's book on Chaos



On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:57 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <
xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:

>
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 6:47 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio
> wrote:
>
> > Do scorch marks on particle board actually count as fractals?  I
> > thought
> > fractals were consistent in their repetition throughout.  Just
> > wondering
> > before I go to work, Dennis in Victoria
>
> Real world fractals (as opposed to mathematical ones) have a limit at
> which they stop being fractal. If nothing else, the size of an atom
> is a limit to how far you can go.
>
> What really makes a fractal a fractal is self-similarity at different
> magnifications. And the right side of 100_0527.jpg definitely has a
> fractal branching structure.
>
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