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PBS Nova - Fractals - Hunting the Hidden Dimension.

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Uploaded on Jul 7, 2011

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"

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  • PoleShift

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

    —Carl Jung

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  • MildBut Wild

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

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  • PoleShift

    welcome to manhood

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  • wildpawn d.

    so, what now?

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  • PoleShift

    you figure that one out

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  • Clayton Julian

    It be kool, if the Universe was a fractal.

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  • BaldingEagle51

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

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  • 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?!

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  • Tribble Reese

    It is!

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  • Bryan Stern

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

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  • doaftheloaf

    both of them?

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  • mphello

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

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  • Steffano Chavez

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

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  • Maria Goldman

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

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