PBS Nova - Fractals - Hunting the Hidden Dimension.

Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature.

A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole," a property called self-similarity.

Fractals: they're famously found in nature and artists have created some incredible renderings as well. Fractals are purely a wonder -- too irregular for Euclidean geometry; iterative and recursive and seemingly infinite. They turn up in food and germs, plants and animals, mountains and water and sky.

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[Imakebootysclap]

that's it the next time some 1 pisses me of Im not saying" Im gona kick your ass" no more for now own its "i'll kick the fractal outta you or " wana get a broken fractal fool"

[PoleShift]

"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."

—Carl Jung

[MildBut Wild]

I've just noticed. My pubic hairs are made up of fractals!!

[PoleShift]

welcome to manhood

[wildpawn d.]

so, what now?

[PoleShift]

you figure that one out

[Clayton Julian]

It be kool, if the Universe was a fractal.

[BaldingEagle51]

Hmm. I think a Dolph Lundgren variant would be better. "I must fracture you."

[Steve C]

@16:27 The monster- what happens if I reverse the process from -the 4th iteration back; what happens when I get back to the original line; what then - what after that? And what happens to the segments that get thrown away?

@48:00 They previously warned against using different measuring-sticks? And was this a double-blind study?

@52:17 Is that an "e" at the top of the mountain?!

[Tribble Reese]

It is!

[Bryan Stern]

This just changed my life! Mathematics is a billion times more awesome. :D

[doaftheloaf]

both of them?

[mphello]

Yes, they're evil, but that doesn't change the math.

[Steffano Chavez]

maybe it is maybe it is fractalicawakening(dot)com / fracprvw(dot)pdf

[Maria Goldman]

Exon... KOCH brothers sponsoring this video. This raises suspicions for me!!