Hawking says there is a limit to scale within our universe but what if the "zoom" on detail within a fractal was applied to time rather than physical space
im really high and this is really cool but i still dont really see how this is connected to nature just because the shiftyshapes look like things.. clouds can look like dragons but that doesn't mean they are clouds, know what im sayin?
I had an immense trip on cannabis. It felt like lasting forever, only the knowing, that planck's length is the smallest length possible and it would end there, brought me back to reality.
So if fractals are infinite and we are reproduced through fractals, then theoretically if i zoomed in enough on an atom in my body i would eventually see myself looking through the microscope if i had the right co-ordinates. screw it... I'm gonna go get a mirror..
@Mainganens - it's more that an atomic structure is self-similar to a solar system structure, which is self-similar to a galaxies structure (ie they are all things that orbit around a central thing), in the same way as in these fractals you get a level of a type of pattern, then after some zoom-ins you get that pattern again but it's not exactly precisely the same.
eg the overall shape is the Mandelbeetle, and after n zooms you'll see more Mandelbeetles, and so on.
Even if everything did supposedly emerge from "nothing", what's to say that it didn't all come from everything that was before it, and it just started over again and will keep doing the same over and over?
Why couldn't the universe go on forever? If there is a planck, why couldn't is just turn back onto itself or keep reproducing on and on like a fractal? Why are they going backwards into the tiniest part? Isn't everything constantly growing and emerging over and over from the smallest thing i.e. big bang? Isn't everything just coming in and fading out and regenerating over and over in different ways just like the fractal? why would it have to stop or reach a point where it can't go on?
hawking is a moron the universe is all that is can will and should be everything that exist the universe is existence and so am i. opinions are like assholes everyones got one. the infinite cannot be known only lived.
Can anyone answer this question for me? It seems as though an infinite 2-Dimensional geometrical structure gives us patterns which correlate directly to everything in our own 3-Dimensional nature as we perceive it... What if there was a 3-Dimensional fractal with an exponentially complex equation to it? Is there? Is this possible? If so, could it explain the true position of an electrons orbit? Perhaps it's true position lay somewhere in the 4th-D, inconceivable using only our senses?
@airmaxltd94 Yes, they add the colors in according to some rules, then change the colors that the computer uses for a given rule, so the colors keep changing while the set remains the same.
and when God said " go forth and multiply " it was noticed that they did so...but not all in one direction! The original set being like god, and the radiation of the set being chaos of randomness ( or randomness of chaos if you like ).
It is funny because little children already think about the scale of the universe intuitively. I remember when I was 8 or 9 sitting at a table with my friends talking about "well, what is smaller than a blood cell?" and so on it went.
The questions that I am exposed to as I age, like the ones given here, are not much more complex in argument or thought.
Interesting how,Perrickan below can't understand fractal eventhou he is good at math. Are we in a evolution of thought where the artist is needed to complet the equation for the analogical mind?Why does it take so long for truth to reach the masses,when ignorance and pride flurish?
@HatemasterGungbok your statement is true,but isn't a society influenced by it surroundings? If it's genetics then everyone should be a murder to some degree,because if we all came from a select group of early ancestors, they must of been consentrated evil and stupid. I don't by the genetic explaination. I think the haves and have nots are at play here. The haves are dumming the masses down with primal behavor.
@wiseyeffect we to be literal: If any mainstream religion is correct, then we did come from a very small pool of people. This would also be true of evolution, however, because at some point the VERY first creature that could be classified as a human male and the VERY first creature that could be classified as a human female were among a very small group of possible human ancestors. As for the haves/havenots ... that is always in play (out of space, see next post)
@wiseyeffect , the super rich of the world have been disassociated from society, they do cruel things to people that someone with any real morals wouldn't do. They are a different "class" than the average person, and find it very easy to remove themselves from the suffering of others. Obviously, there are always the exceptions to that rule, rich who remember what it was like before they had money... but they are not the majority.
@HatemasterGungbok yes, your statement is mostly right. I've found that the greatest lessions in life are delivered in chaos. It would seem that the elite are ruthless bastards but I have a different angle of perspective. I think their is a group of selfish egos but they are puppets. The true puppetmasters are refining the human spieces. The NWO conspiracy is for the week minded but the new nwo is divine. If you want the real conspiracy reply with a yes.it will shock you!
yes please ^_^ . I too see that what is going on as a "divine conspiracy", like everything has a good purpose to it, you know? I would like to know your point of view on the subject.
@RawArt0 You are the quintessence of ignorance...Typical of the ignorant in that you apply your spiritual (even worse) or religious desires onto the purely scientific. Just stop.
I like to think I'm reasonably good at understanding science and mathematical things, but fractals leave me slack-jawed and drooling while all of my brain power is diverted to trying to get a grasp of what this is all about.
I don't know if the universe has limits. But I'm more inclined to believe that there is a limit in mankind's capability to understand the limits of the universe.
I tend not to agree with Stephen Hawking, in his rigid adherence to very mainstream cosmological theory, ie, the Planck Length. He is saying, then, that this cannot be further subdivided, contradicting the existence of an infinity --which is clearly demonstrated in the M-set/fractal discovery. Moreover, adherence to the Planck Length also contradicts infinity in the mainstream theory of a singularity.
In all honesty, at this level, even Hawking is guessing. It is all theoretical.
hey guys. just a thought, and i am no scientist. what about the mandelbrot set but super inmposed in 3 dimensions (the dimension we appear to be in, the universe) Please someone in the know put me right. peace
Sorry, but i've watched and listened to many interviews and lectures and everytime i listen to what he has to say, at the end its still undefinitive and unconclusive. I suppose, he is thinking outside of the box but at least with applied science we can see its affects and understand it. What he talks about is just out of the box "theories" which don't seem to bring us closer to understanding the universe
This documentary seems to be old, they claim that it hasn't been used in practical things yet: But ALL antennas in cellphones are built on this theory, or we would still have to bring big antennas using cellphones,, also in computer graphics, fractal design of circuits, chips etc.
it's the same soundtrack but delayed in a lower volume.. it can clearly be heard after mr Hawkings has finished, his voice is still delayed speaking in the background even when Clarke is speaking
I noticed they were applying this idea to the subatomic(inward). Why not apply it to the universe (outward). This would mean our galaxy is going around something very large out there and so on and so on. DAMN!
A snowflake is a prime example. Northern Buddhists also refer to fractal geometry as chiliocosm's. Micro/Macro/Great/Small. Much longer ago than 1901... Funny how we just now have the tools to begin to understand it as a possibility yet they found it without any of them.
The Bhagavad Gita, Taoist texts, and Buddhist texts all describe these ideas. At the simplest level you can only argue they were describing it philosophically. They definitely saw it in sense objects as well though, so if we are to be aware to all possibilities, perhaps they even perceived the whole field or parts of itself...? (Akashic Record) We have so much to discover...and I have a feeling fractal geometry is the key.
@hrbear It's David Gilmour FROM Pink Floyd who composed the music. It's not from a particular Floyd album but some of the tunes do bear similarities to the bands songs, probably because Gilmour was asked to make them sound like Shine On...etc.
So ole' Art goes to London, gets Prof. Hawking to talk at some length about the finite nature of real-world complexity, only to say, "Of course, he might be wrong."
@clarkcolt45 Did you notice the computer at 6:35 I think it's an old Mac. :) I had tried Ultra Fractal in a PC, I think was Pentium 233 first time, then in a Pentium 600, slot 1 after some years, the computer was trying to draw the details of the Mandelbrot set, as soon as the CPUs reached very high speeds like 2 GHz and more, the drawings are being made almost immediately, and we are talking about many calculations per pixel I suppose.
Why a connection between specifically the mandelbrot set and the way nature operates?
The mandelbrot set is only one way to achieve a fractal design of infinite complexity with infinitely diverging shapes and all their possible combinations. There are also uncountable other ways to make fractals which have the same qualities.
Nature may use more then just mandelbrot, or may use entirely different fractal processes.
They are right about fractals being used for commercial purposes. I'd say most of you have fractals in their pockets - cellphone antennae are fractals, allowing a single antenna to be used for GSM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.
Why are we assuming that when we zoom in on a set, that we are seeing smaller and smaller sets? Could we not be just looking farther and farther away?
It's a mathematically steered visual - it doesn't actually have size or distance. But this is also true of the perceived world - the mind creates objects, but direct experience is fundamentally boundless.
I hope I'm not speaking out of turn(I really dont posess the education to assume i might know exactly what I'm talking about here!)BUT, As far as I know the plank length is due to stuff like gravity and the speed of light in a vacume meaning that with our current level of understanding this is the smallest thingy!
But maybe fracals give us a bit more to go on!
Nevermind I got a head ache just trying to think about it!
One major application has been in making computer games. Fractals can massively help speed up the process of generating terrain in wide open worlds for games. Often RTS games can prceduarally generate giant 3D worlds from scratch which include forests, clifs, rivers etc. quite well without the need for manual editing at all, a player can start again as much as they like and get a different world each time.
i hear that Sagan sold out to US gov't and did not disclose ET or the agenda of the shadow gov't...why? cause they would have killed him at worst and best they would have taken his funding..
well just from looking at wmap of the universe, or well a tree for that matter, our universe looks completely infinite and infinitly irregular, our universe makes the Mset look like a equilateral triangle
NO. the plank length is complete bullshit. There is no limit to the division of matter, only what humans could ever imagine to perceive with tools. The physics community are just scared of this fact.
The "Planck" length is hardly bullshit, it's simply the smallest known unit of measure in current physics.
And if you are going to be so bold as to slag off an entire system of measurement widely used in physics as well as an entire community who devote their lives to the study of this field, then please back your claims with some hard data of your own. If not, and all you can provide is base conjecture and insults, then please refrain from commenting on the subject any further.
quatum physics is the science of the smallest particules and they came to the conclusion that there isnt a smallest particles because everything is vibrations...
Photons are particles that travel in waves. Light is made of photons. E=MC^2 signifies to us that yes, everything is in vibration, but also that everything is created from particles, from energy. We aren't simply waves, but waves of particles. Where do you find these ridiculously absolute conclusions like "and they came to the conclusion that there isnt a smallest particles"?
For me inner space is infinite. And so is outer space. Our universe is apart of something infinitely larger than itself. Some seem to be uncomfortable looking at reality in this way. But for me its obvious and I feel wonderfully connected to everything. Even the infinitely large and small parts of existence.
" We suspect that there is a limit to how small anything can be, because on a very small distance scale the combination of quantum mechanics and General Relativity goes haywire. Roughly speaking, if something is very small, it has a big momentum spread and a lot of energy. But if it has a lot of energy in a little space, a black hole forms. For a given amount of energy theres a minimum size of black hole. " by Mike W. ( answer in 'smallest particle? )
Interesting but I still have a hunch(I don't know) that beyond QM and GR going haywire all you need to explain ever decreasing sizes are new dimensions. This will always be beyond our understanding just like we can't know whats outside our universe we can't know whats inside 1x10 to the power of negative infinity.
why are new dimensions required? i dont think its that complex 4th dimension seems to fit all. dont buy into that extra dimension shit its smart people trying to get money thats all. 4-d is all we need :)
he said that there is a size in which nothing exist.
nothing is that only infinite thing there is, all things disapear and reform constantly and have a finite existance, nothing on the other hand never changes never goes away.
matter may or may not be finite...but nothing is undoubtably forever
i didn't mean it like that. i just noticed some pink floyd tunes and i thought it was nice. don't get jumpy. what? is it not floyd? if not i would like to know what it is that i can download some. thank you
If you could, would you spend your whole life searching deeper and deeper into the mandelbrot? My question would be, what is the point of analysis into infinity. I think, if the mandelbrot set is a representation of reality, and our lives are at points, deep within, that time is the reproach from that deep point, and those small reiterations of the big picture are both birth and death. But ultimately, the working of this problem, regarding reality, is time, and the figures are physical matter.
there really is no such thing as time it's Illusions are quite relative,
if this was not so then the physics regarding light, wouldn't be correct,
the time which we perceive in the numbers on our clock's are only relative to how long it takes the orbit of planetary body's such as the sun earth and moon to go round each other time is the measurment of those things,
with that thought alone time seems highly abstract,
i don't have enough room here to Finnish explaining the rest of this,
Time is not like a line, more like a dot, ever expanding on an ever-expanding plane. The result looks like neither the dot or the plane are increasing. This singularity is what we call the now. We experience memories in the present, and so memories are an illusion as well. Time is the movement, vibration, motion of elementary particles or energy. Time is Matter; matter and time are interwoven. Without matter there is no time. The big bang happened, time began, but still, endless nothing exists.
I realize as I'm saying this that I am just describing the basic concepts of real analysis. I can't remember any of the names now, but mathematically, that's exactly what we're talking about, isn't it. An open versus closed disk, etc? Something like that--it's been a while!
. . . but still ever closer approximations of the actual infinite boundary?
What I'm wondering about specifically, is when you're in the middle of one of those complicated spirals, where it's all bunched together, if you dove into the middle, of a space outside the set, is there still some stray tentacle, impossibly small, that we haven't seen? Or is there line beyond which those tentacles do not cross? ....
Another question for smart people. Is there an outer boundary to the set? I mean a big, rough boundary, for instance are any points in the set more than say a distance of 10 from the origin? More than 100?
Equally, can you refine that boundary ever closer and closer to the real boundary? In other words, obviously, the "actual" boundary of the set is infinite in length. Can we draw a circle around it, and refine that circle more and more, always a _finite_ length, but still ever closer...
Try to think of it like this. You take 2 points. Halve the distance between the points. Do this infinitely over and over. The 2 points will never touch. But they mover closer and closer every time forever. So the mandelbrot does move out infinitely but also shrinks infinitely at the same time or grows depending how you look at it.
I know how to think about it; you didn't answer my question.
If you take two points, then those points do have an outer bound. Does the Mandelbrot set?
(This is a simple real analysis question--I'm just asking what the answer is. The series: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... does have an upper bound (1). The series 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + 1/6 + ... does _not_ have an upper bound.)
My question is, which is the Mandelbrot set? Is it bounded?
Ok sorry. The resaults in the set are either stable or go off into infinity or down into zero. So yes it does have an upper and lower bound as you've descibed.
Haha - nice. Hawking said it has a limit. The Buddha has bean asked about it and he said somthing like that:
I have searched and look deep inside but didnt find finity. In the one grain of sand there is a whole limitles of universes. And finity cannot be found nowhere because this go and go forever.
Isnt this beautiful? This can and will always bring a dizzy and still be uncomprehended for the scientists. Now we have found a tiny quarks but still there is more and more to be found - for ever :)
dude, how The Buddha described it is exactly what was going through my head as i watched this part of the movie. and just thinking about the applications of it is blowing my mind, therefore i must write them down!
Maaath! :(
I was never good at math! D:
Still, it's interesting how math can create such beautiful art work.
NebetSeta 1 week ago
Hawking says there is a limit to scale within our universe but what if the "zoom" on detail within a fractal was applied to time rather than physical space
pjennings0001 2 weeks ago
im really high and this is really cool but i still dont really see how this is connected to nature just because the shiftyshapes look like things.. clouds can look like dragons but that doesn't mean they are clouds, know what im sayin?
BesitzenDUBBED 1 month ago in playlist Arthur Clarke - Fractals - The Colors of Infinity
Im so glad I decided not to get high before watching this.
Disposition446 1 month ago
I had an immense trip on cannabis. It felt like lasting forever, only the knowing, that planck's length is the smallest length possible and it would end there, brought me back to reality.
xxxrrrxxxrrr 3 months ago
So if fractals are infinite and we are reproduced through fractals, then theoretically if i zoomed in enough on an atom in my body i would eventually see myself looking through the microscope if i had the right co-ordinates. screw it... I'm gonna go get a mirror..
Mainganens 3 months ago
@Mainganens - it's more that an atomic structure is self-similar to a solar system structure, which is self-similar to a galaxies structure (ie they are all things that orbit around a central thing), in the same way as in these fractals you get a level of a type of pattern, then after some zoom-ins you get that pattern again but it's not exactly precisely the same.
eg the overall shape is the Mandelbeetle, and after n zooms you'll see more Mandelbeetles, and so on.
JustSomePerson888 3 months ago
6:45
Wizkid717007 5 months ago
6:50
Wizkid717007 5 months ago
I'm beginning to think reality is all a big computer program and God is the one who hit "run"!
purpurpledog8 5 months ago
@purpurpledog8 the matrix
BenjaminMJ 3 months ago
@purpurpledog8 lol, gr8 comment!
Imforthewhales 3 months ago
Even if everything did supposedly emerge from "nothing", what's to say that it didn't all come from everything that was before it, and it just started over again and will keep doing the same over and over?
Goldfrappe 5 months ago 8
Why couldn't the universe go on forever? If there is a planck, why couldn't is just turn back onto itself or keep reproducing on and on like a fractal? Why are they going backwards into the tiniest part? Isn't everything constantly growing and emerging over and over from the smallest thing i.e. big bang? Isn't everything just coming in and fading out and regenerating over and over in different ways just like the fractal? why would it have to stop or reach a point where it can't go on?
Goldfrappe 5 months ago
this is beautiful fuck you stephen hawkins greedy selfish bastard.
TheLovesoul1 6 months ago
"...someday Prime Minister, you'll be able to tax it."
So....we've always been greedy whores.
rubbersole79 7 months ago
Fuck u stephen hawking, u fucking moron
baphomet58 7 months ago
i heard that is some kind of fractal equation that make the miniaturization of cell phone antenna...
JackassBauer1 8 months ago
cause we're just a program. We'll find out one day...lol
mattysimsoficial 9 months ago
hawking is a moron the universe is all that is can will and should be everything that exist the universe is existence and so am i. opinions are like assholes everyones got one. the infinite cannot be known only lived.
TheLovesoul1 10 months ago
@TheLovesoul1 you had me at "hawking is a moron"
jokergd 9 months ago
Can anyone answer this question for me? It seems as though an infinite 2-Dimensional geometrical structure gives us patterns which correlate directly to everything in our own 3-Dimensional nature as we perceive it... What if there was a 3-Dimensional fractal with an exponentially complex equation to it? Is there? Is this possible? If so, could it explain the true position of an electrons orbit? Perhaps it's true position lay somewhere in the 4th-D, inconceivable using only our senses?
cmzuppe 1 year ago
This is fascinating. Very informative. It's interesting that they don't mention movement at all....
MayorMichaelShell 1 year ago
I bet they couldn't afford the real Pink Floyd haha
mindprism 1 year ago
@mindprism David Gilmour isn't a bad substitute, he did, afterall, write most of PF's music!
irena7777777 11 months ago
so there are actually colours? And to think maths was just grey pencil marks on squared paper :D
But how can there be colours in a set? do they digitally colourise it themselves to make it seem more interesting? confused...
airmaxltd94 1 year ago
@airmaxltd94 Yes, they add the colors in according to some rules, then change the colors that the computer uses for a given rule, so the colors keep changing while the set remains the same.
losthor1zon 1 year ago
DNA is the seed of the life fractal. Z = the 99.99....% of similar dna the c is the 0.000...1% difference and that difference is the key!
harlosik13 1 year ago
@harlosik13 {0.000...1% difference}
Math people like to argue that one over infinity IS zero. Thats what they are taught in college-- ie, the thing 'right next to zero' is zero.
I call bullshit
mindprism 1 year ago
iff in the real universe it goes on for ever, we will never know.
dezziss 1 year ago
what's that song playing at 4:45? someone please tell me.
romilitant 1 year ago
and when God said " go forth and multiply " it was noticed that they did so...but not all in one direction! The original set being like god, and the radiation of the set being chaos of randomness ( or randomness of chaos if you like ).
...therefore... from God comes chaos?
wetdigestive 1 year ago
It is funny because little children already think about the scale of the universe intuitively. I remember when I was 8 or 9 sitting at a table with my friends talking about "well, what is smaller than a blood cell?" and so on it went.
The questions that I am exposed to as I age, like the ones given here, are not much more complex in argument or thought.
numberJ5 1 year ago
octopi ?? the plural is octopusses
vulpecula999 1 year ago
Interesting how,Perrickan below can't understand fractal eventhou he is good at math. Are we in a evolution of thought where the artist is needed to complet the equation for the analogical mind?Why does it take so long for truth to reach the masses,when ignorance and pride flurish?
wiseyeffect 1 year ago
@wiseyeffect because ignorance and pride are hot topics you can make an article out of... while being intelligent/educated isn't "cool"
HatemasterGungbok 1 year ago
@HatemasterGungbok your statement is true,but isn't a society influenced by it surroundings? If it's genetics then everyone should be a murder to some degree,because if we all came from a select group of early ancestors, they must of been consentrated evil and stupid. I don't by the genetic explaination. I think the haves and have nots are at play here. The haves are dumming the masses down with primal behavor.
wiseyeffect 1 year ago
@wiseyeffect we to be literal: If any mainstream religion is correct, then we did come from a very small pool of people. This would also be true of evolution, however, because at some point the VERY first creature that could be classified as a human male and the VERY first creature that could be classified as a human female were among a very small group of possible human ancestors. As for the haves/havenots ... that is always in play (out of space, see next post)
HatemasterGungbok 1 year ago
@wiseyeffect , the super rich of the world have been disassociated from society, they do cruel things to people that someone with any real morals wouldn't do. They are a different "class" than the average person, and find it very easy to remove themselves from the suffering of others. Obviously, there are always the exceptions to that rule, rich who remember what it was like before they had money... but they are not the majority.
HatemasterGungbok 1 year ago
@HatemasterGungbok yes, your statement is mostly right. I've found that the greatest lessions in life are delivered in chaos. It would seem that the elite are ruthless bastards but I have a different angle of perspective. I think their is a group of selfish egos but they are puppets. The true puppetmasters are refining the human spieces. The NWO conspiracy is for the week minded but the new nwo is divine. If you want the real conspiracy reply with a yes.it will shock you!
wiseyeffect 1 year ago
@wiseyeffect
yes please ^_^ . I too see that what is going on as a "divine conspiracy", like everything has a good purpose to it, you know? I would like to know your point of view on the subject.
Arto
RawArt0 1 year ago
@RawArt0 You are the quintessence of ignorance...Typical of the ignorant in that you apply your spiritual (even worse) or religious desires onto the purely scientific. Just stop.
Divine conspiracy...LOL!
djfakt 1 year ago
Very NiCe !!
therevisions 1 year ago
I like to think I'm reasonably good at understanding science and mathematical things, but fractals leave me slack-jawed and drooling while all of my brain power is diverted to trying to get a grasp of what this is all about.
Perrickan 1 year ago
mesmerizing
aussiexlguy 1 year ago
I don't know if the universe has limits. But I'm more inclined to believe that there is a limit in mankind's capability to understand the limits of the universe.
scncp5 1 year ago
@scncp5 Ya na I agree with you there. What I am surprised is that the Mathematician was not up for the Nobel Prize in mathematics
vk92007 1 year ago
@scncp5
vk92007 1 year ago
steven hawkings thought theres a limit to the universe in the 80's..wow he was dumb..
HFKscreech 1 year ago
wow this is before nanotech and genome understanding...
633336 1 year ago
I tend not to agree with Stephen Hawking, in his rigid adherence to very mainstream cosmological theory, ie, the Planck Length. He is saying, then, that this cannot be further subdivided, contradicting the existence of an infinity --which is clearly demonstrated in the M-set/fractal discovery. Moreover, adherence to the Planck Length also contradicts infinity in the mainstream theory of a singularity.
In all honesty, at this level, even Hawking is guessing. It is all theoretical.
bonzelite 1 year ago
So if the Planck Length (I'm guessing theorized by Max Planck), is there an outer limit? In other words, up until infinity?
djd259th 1 year ago
@djd259
vk92007 1 year ago
what happens if you zoom only onto the dark parts ??
themole130471 1 year ago
@themole130471
you see darkness?
DUB8leA 1 year ago
Pink Floyd - High Hopes remix in this. Nice
xTroop18546x 1 year ago
There is only one word for this: Mesmerizing
Fangornmmc 1 year ago
hey guys. just a thought, and i am no scientist. what about the mandelbrot set but super inmposed in 3 dimensions (the dimension we appear to be in, the universe) Please someone in the know put me right. peace
DUB8leA 1 year ago
@DUB8leA Watch Nassim Harameins lecture at rouge valley and all will be explained.
srgtmurphy 1 year ago
@srgtmurphy
Sorry, but i've watched and listened to many interviews and lectures and everytime i listen to what he has to say, at the end its still undefinitive and unconclusive. I suppose, he is thinking outside of the box but at least with applied science we can see its affects and understand it. What he talks about is just out of the box "theories" which don't seem to bring us closer to understanding the universe
DUB8leA 1 year ago
great documentary.. moves pretty slow though
luckyterra 1 year ago
@luckyterra Slow documentaries are ideal for Winter nights. :)
hrbear 1 year ago
This documentary seems to be old, they claim that it hasn't been used in practical things yet: But ALL antennas in cellphones are built on this theory, or we would still have to bring big antennas using cellphones,, also in computer graphics, fractal design of circuits, chips etc.
clarkcolt45 1 year ago
Something that's kinda creeping me out:
If you listen to this with headphones, you can hear a tiny voice in the right speaker in several parts throughout the entire video.
imanselmo 2 years ago
it's the same soundtrack but delayed in a lower volume.. it can clearly be heard after mr Hawkings has finished, his voice is still delayed speaking in the background even when Clarke is speaking
clarkcolt45 1 year ago
@imanselmo i hear it too. its probably coming from that dudes radio. 3:35
ephemerealfox 1 year ago
@imanselmo my mistake. the voice is not just in that particular segment.
ephemerealfox 1 year ago
I noticed they were applying this idea to the subatomic(inward). Why not apply it to the universe (outward). This would mean our galaxy is going around something very large out there and so on and so on. DAMN!
VisionQuest2012 2 years ago 19
You just blew my freaking mind.
chasersbf 1 year ago
@VisionQuest2012 watch "The Magnificent Universe" it will explain everything
hellomynameisdiablo 1 year ago
@VisionQuest2012 Ever heard of the Great Attractor?
DainXC 11 months ago
@VisionQuest2012 Have you ever seen a macro-scale model of the universe?.. It looks curiously like a fractal.
kryptonickraze 7 months ago
A snowflake is a prime example. Northern Buddhists also refer to fractal geometry as chiliocosm's. Micro/Macro/Great/Small. Much longer ago than 1901... Funny how we just now have the tools to begin to understand it as a possibility yet they found it without any of them.
rollingrock4life 2 years ago 2
I wonder why the dept of education maintains it's "inaccuracy" and claims it isn't worth teaching....
rollingrock4life 2 years ago 2
The Bhagavad Gita, Taoist texts, and Buddhist texts all describe these ideas. At the simplest level you can only argue they were describing it philosophically. They definitely saw it in sense objects as well though, so if we are to be aware to all possibilities, perhaps they even perceived the whole field or parts of itself...? (Akashic Record) We have so much to discover...and I have a feeling fractal geometry is the key.
rollingrock4life 2 years ago 2
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Who cares about the maths, David Gilmour's soundtrack is far more interesting...
irena7777777 2 years ago
haha,u got 6 thumbs down for what i would consider decent comment. I can get no more then 4 even after mocking with pope
f0revern0ty0urs2 1 year ago
Can't even remember what I said! It isn't showing either! Please enlighten me...was it something about the David Gilmour soundtrack?
irena7777777 1 year ago
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Indeed, "Who cares about the maths, David Gilmour's soundtrack is far more interesting... "
Poor soul, and i bet u meant no harm...
f0revern0ty0urs2 1 year ago
@irena7777777 It's Pink Floyd I think, I don't remember exactly from which album.
hrbear 1 year ago
@hrbear It's David Gilmour FROM Pink Floyd who composed the music. It's not from a particular Floyd album but some of the tunes do bear similarities to the bands songs, probably because Gilmour was asked to make them sound like Shine On...etc.
irena7777777 1 year ago
So ole' Art goes to London, gets Prof. Hawking to talk at some length about the finite nature of real-world complexity, only to say, "Of course, he might be wrong."
Good one.
kennypark 2 years ago
yeah the documentary seems to be pretty old, the plank length is not the smallest anymore, they're talking about string theory today etc.
clarkcolt45 1 year ago
@clarkcolt45 Did you notice the computer at 6:35 I think it's an old Mac. :) I had tried Ultra Fractal in a PC, I think was Pentium 233 first time, then in a Pentium 600, slot 1 after some years, the computer was trying to draw the details of the Mandelbrot set, as soon as the CPUs reached very high speeds like 2 GHz and more, the drawings are being made almost immediately, and we are talking about many calculations per pixel I suppose.
hrbear 1 year ago
So if Fractals use the simplest math to make a simple shape then what if you use the most complex math to make the most complex shape?
1CME90 2 years ago
Why a connection between specifically the mandelbrot set and the way nature operates?
The mandelbrot set is only one way to achieve a fractal design of infinite complexity with infinitely diverging shapes and all their possible combinations. There are also uncountable other ways to make fractals which have the same qualities.
Nature may use more then just mandelbrot, or may use entirely different fractal processes.
RLore18 2 years ago 2
Sure there are different ways (calculations) of creating fractals, but the mandelbrot set uses the simplest math to achieve the "simplest" shape.
colorschan 2 years ago
ok what exactly is the set???? is it the cell of a plant?? is it a math formula?? is it what makes up nutrons and protons??? idk how its significant.
AlexIsonSanders 2 years ago
The guy with curly grey hair, big glasses and plants behind him looks like Will Ferrell.
tetromino7 2 years ago
we are fractal,because we reproduce.
MsMrbrown 2 years ago 34
@MsMrbrown therefore, sex is the meaning of life
xeoncat202 1 year ago 2
@MsMrbrown Fallacious reasoning, my friend.
djfakt 1 year ago
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@MsMrbrown "we are fractal,because we reproduce."
LOL! So does cancer.
technatezin 4 months ago
They are right about fractals being used for commercial purposes. I'd say most of you have fractals in their pockets - cellphone antennae are fractals, allowing a single antenna to be used for GSM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.
clerlic 2 years ago
Why are we assuming that when we zoom in on a set, that we are seeing smaller and smaller sets? Could we not be just looking farther and farther away?
ironfootstudio 2 years ago
It's a mathematically steered visual - it doesn't actually have size or distance. But this is also true of the perceived world - the mind creates objects, but direct experience is fundamentally boundless.
frankbraker 2 years ago
Pink Floyd music?
Dogod463 2 years ago
Music by David Gilmour (of pink floyd)
RupertDCD27 2 years ago
What use IS a new born baby?!
MilesBennetDyson 2 years ago
Does anybody think this may be applied(maybe with ever more complex computing power etc..)to a fuller understanding of DNA ?
DaveODrisc 2 years ago
I think i get what hawkings was saying. There has to be a zero,"'we know it as reality, but if equations begs a question it is why it exists.
MrBill1969 2 years ago 2
I hope I'm not speaking out of turn(I really dont posess the education to assume i might know exactly what I'm talking about here!)BUT, As far as I know the plank length is due to stuff like gravity and the speed of light in a vacume meaning that with our current level of understanding this is the smallest thingy!
But maybe fracals give us a bit more to go on!
Nevermind I got a head ache just trying to think about it!
DaveODrisc 2 years ago 4
One major application has been in making computer games. Fractals can massively help speed up the process of generating terrain in wide open worlds for games. Often RTS games can prceduarally generate giant 3D worlds from scratch which include forests, clifs, rivers etc. quite well without the need for manual editing at all, a player can start again as much as they like and get a different world each time.
pikmindoctor 2 years ago
Darwinia is one such game that does that ,
jmm1233 2 years ago
a million billion billion? good job
nhp5252 2 years ago
If It does go on forever how are you going to know that ever.
wildchildplasma 2 years ago
this geometery, is transposed to common logic, proves that the doors of preception are infintie
purphanz 2 years ago 2
well said :)
binary132 2 years ago
You must admire Sir Arthur Clarke. He will never say:"we don't know that." He will only say:"We don't know that YET."
damjanjerina 2 years ago
I admire him but he won't say anything now because he is dead.
teamcrumb 2 years ago
Sagan was the same. It's sad that we've lost them both.
SayYesToReason 2 years ago
Yep Sagan was a great Scientist and my homeboy Arty C.Clark .
(he comes from the same part of England as me)
Was a pure genius also!
At least they both left a wonderful legacy!
DaveODrisc 2 years ago
I agree with regard to both. We are, after all, mortal beings. The best we can hope for is to leave behind something that inspires and benefits.
Requiem en Pace, Sagan et Clarke.
SayYesToReason 2 years ago 2
i hear that Sagan sold out to US gov't and did not disclose ET or the agenda of the shadow gov't...why? cause they would have killed him at worst and best they would have taken his funding..
guadalupejoe1 2 years ago
A few questions...
1) What is your source for this information?
2) What is that source's agenda?
3) Do you subscribe to that kind of conspiratorial thinking often?
SayYesToReason 2 years ago
dude theyre scientists. THEYRE the sources
pualaxkoalaxhfm 2 years ago
If M THEORY is right maybe our whole multi-dimensional universe is truly completely infinite like M SET.
wolffrankenstein 3 years ago 2
well just from looking at wmap of the universe, or well a tree for that matter, our universe looks completely infinite and infinitly irregular, our universe makes the Mset look like a equilateral triangle
phobosx12 2 years ago
Nassim Haramein's theory of infinity contained within a finite space seems more feasible to me, but then again, I am not a theoretical physicist.
cdsupreme1717 3 years ago
NO. the plank length is complete bullshit. There is no limit to the division of matter, only what humans could ever imagine to perceive with tools. The physics community are just scared of this fact.
tonyrosam 3 years ago
agreed
dewsplash 3 years ago
The "Planck" length is hardly bullshit, it's simply the smallest known unit of measure in current physics.
And if you are going to be so bold as to slag off an entire system of measurement widely used in physics as well as an entire community who devote their lives to the study of this field, then please back your claims with some hard data of your own. If not, and all you can provide is base conjecture and insults, then please refrain from commenting on the subject any further.
jonjonmcjonjon 3 years ago 2
quatum physics is the science of the smallest particules and they came to the conclusion that there isnt a smallest particles because everything is vibrations...
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jman2zx 2 years ago
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Photons are particles that travel in waves. Light is made of photons. E=MC^2 signifies to us that yes, everything is in vibration, but also that everything is created from particles, from energy. We aren't simply waves, but waves of particles. Where do you find these ridiculously absolute conclusions like "and they came to the conclusion that there isnt a smallest particles"?
jman2zx 2 years ago
you can take a million million million million of and inch and divide that a million million billion trillion quadrillion times and so on and so on
phobosx12 2 years ago
I think Hawkins is right our universe probably does have a limit but I don't believe that for all existence I think that is 2 different things.
dhwgrooves 3 years ago
For me inner space is infinite. And so is outer space. Our universe is apart of something infinitely larger than itself. Some seem to be uncomfortable looking at reality in this way. But for me its obvious and I feel wonderfully connected to everything. Even the infinitely large and small parts of existence.
dewsplash 3 years ago
I found this quote on the internet:
" We suspect that there is a limit to how small anything can be, because on a very small distance scale the combination of quantum mechanics and General Relativity goes haywire. Roughly speaking, if something is very small, it has a big momentum spread and a lot of energy. But if it has a lot of energy in a little space, a black hole forms. For a given amount of energy theres a minimum size of black hole. " by Mike W. ( answer in 'smallest particle? )
dizzo95 3 years ago
Interesting but I still have a hunch(I don't know) that beyond QM and GR going haywire all you need to explain ever decreasing sizes are new dimensions. This will always be beyond our understanding just like we can't know whats outside our universe we can't know whats inside 1x10 to the power of negative infinity.
dewsplash 3 years ago
why are new dimensions required? i dont think its that complex 4th dimension seems to fit all. dont buy into that extra dimension shit its smart people trying to get money thats all. 4-d is all we need :)
tonyrosam 3 years ago
Have you ever smoke DMT? Try it and get back to me about dimensions.
dewsplash 3 years ago
Funny. No that stuff is hard to find pure form, unless you can synth it. Which is also hard. Ill try Ayahuasca soon tho.
tonyrosam 3 years ago
there was an episode of the universe, on the history Chanel,
about the Multiverse,
just thought I'd toss that thought in there,
Wheatheredtome 3 years ago
he said that there is a size in which nothing exist.
nothing is that only infinite thing there is, all things disapear and reform constantly and have a finite existance, nothing on the other hand never changes never goes away.
matter may or may not be finite...but nothing is undoubtably forever
pastimetrippin 3 years ago
only because nothing is void of time and space.
nothing can't change because that would mean it was something......
drtyltlbgr 3 years ago
i do not agree with stephen, the real universe most likely WILL be infinite.
ododidit 3 years ago
the universe surely IS infinite in many ways. But it maybe is NOT infinite in ALL Ways.
Thats probably what Stephen Hawkings is saying.
In SOME ways the universe is restricted. Why not? It would still be infinite, but with a "resolution".
georgemargaris 3 years ago
buy video four i`m pretty much ou of it...
calvinjones 3 years ago
"new devices based on the principles of fractal geometry" ... Kind of like the internet.
jackferwerda 3 years ago
pink floyd is the only music suitable for fractals
kastrato90 3 years ago 4
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dafaucas 3 years ago
i didn't mean it like that. i just noticed some pink floyd tunes and i thought it was nice. don't get jumpy. what? is it not floyd? if not i would like to know what it is that i can download some. thank you
kastrato90 3 years ago
it's totally pink floyd playing on all of this.
drtyltlbgr 3 years ago
yup.... sorta.
It's a score Roger Waters composed solely for this movie.
If you want the music itself... my best guess is to look for a soundtrack.
Stratophony 3 years ago
My mistake... it's composed by David Gilmour; not Roger Waters.
I guess that makes more sense, he was always better at writing more spacey stuff. Roger owns him on lyrics though.
Stratophony 3 years ago
If you could, would you spend your whole life searching deeper and deeper into the mandelbrot? My question would be, what is the point of analysis into infinity. I think, if the mandelbrot set is a representation of reality, and our lives are at points, deep within, that time is the reproach from that deep point, and those small reiterations of the big picture are both birth and death. But ultimately, the working of this problem, regarding reality, is time, and the figures are physical matter.
phvalue323 3 years ago
there really is no such thing as time it's Illusions are quite relative,
if this was not so then the physics regarding light, wouldn't be correct,
the time which we perceive in the numbers on our clock's are only relative to how long it takes the orbit of planetary body's such as the sun earth and moon to go round each other time is the measurment of those things,
with that thought alone time seems highly abstract,
i don't have enough room here to Finnish explaining the rest of this,
Wheatheredtome 3 years ago
Time is not like a line, more like a dot, ever expanding on an ever-expanding plane. The result looks like neither the dot or the plane are increasing. This singularity is what we call the now. We experience memories in the present, and so memories are an illusion as well. Time is the movement, vibration, motion of elementary particles or energy. Time is Matter; matter and time are interwoven. Without matter there is no time. The big bang happened, time began, but still, endless nothing exists.
phvalue323 3 years ago
When membrane theory is combined with fractal geometry the infinite number of dimensions/universes seems much more plausible.
SigmundF17 3 years ago
does anyone know the music at 4:15? please reply as I won't be able to come and search for the answer too often
pcdsgh 3 years ago
thriller by michael jackson
Sclorched 3 years ago
I realize as I'm saying this that I am just describing the basic concepts of real analysis. I can't remember any of the names now, but mathematically, that's exactly what we're talking about, isn't it. An open versus closed disk, etc? Something like that--it's been a while!
greg5566 3 years ago
. . . but still ever closer approximations of the actual infinite boundary?
What I'm wondering about specifically, is when you're in the middle of one of those complicated spirals, where it's all bunched together, if you dove into the middle, of a space outside the set, is there still some stray tentacle, impossibly small, that we haven't seen? Or is there line beyond which those tentacles do not cross? ....
greg5566 3 years ago
Another question for smart people. Is there an outer boundary to the set? I mean a big, rough boundary, for instance are any points in the set more than say a distance of 10 from the origin? More than 100?
Equally, can you refine that boundary ever closer and closer to the real boundary? In other words, obviously, the "actual" boundary of the set is infinite in length. Can we draw a circle around it, and refine that circle more and more, always a _finite_ length, but still ever closer...
greg5566 3 years ago
Try to think of it like this. You take 2 points. Halve the distance between the points. Do this infinitely over and over. The 2 points will never touch. But they mover closer and closer every time forever. So the mandelbrot does move out infinitely but also shrinks infinitely at the same time or grows depending how you look at it.
dewsplash 3 years ago
I know how to think about it; you didn't answer my question.
If you take two points, then those points do have an outer bound. Does the Mandelbrot set?
(This is a simple real analysis question--I'm just asking what the answer is. The series: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... does have an upper bound (1). The series 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + 1/6 + ... does _not_ have an upper bound.)
My question is, which is the Mandelbrot set? Is it bounded?
greg5566 3 years ago
Mandelbrot Set is seen to have an elaborate boundary, which does not simplify at any given magnification. This qualifies the boundary as a fractal.
dewsplash 3 years ago
Ok sorry. The resaults in the set are either stable or go off into infinity or down into zero. So yes it does have an upper and lower bound as you've descibed.
dewsplash 3 years ago
Haha - nice. Hawking said it has a limit. The Buddha has bean asked about it and he said somthing like that:
I have searched and look deep inside but didnt find finity. In the one grain of sand there is a whole limitles of universes. And finity cannot be found nowhere because this go and go forever.
Isnt this beautiful? This can and will always bring a dizzy and still be uncomprehended for the scientists. Now we have found a tiny quarks but still there is more and more to be found - for ever :)
PlanetarPL 3 years ago 8
dude, how The Buddha described it is exactly what was going through my head as i watched this part of the movie. and just thinking about the applications of it is blowing my mind, therefore i must write them down!
away to the bat cave!
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vonshtoyven 3 years ago 4