Arthur Clarke - Fractals - The Colors Of Infinity 4 of 6

Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself. Dr. Mandelbrot in 1980 discovered the infinitely complex geometrical shape called the Mandelbrot Set using a very simple equation with computers and graphics.
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Springer Science + Business Media, LLC
http://www.springer.com/mathematics/book/978-1-84996-485-2

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• Arthur
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• Fractals
• Colors
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• Infinity
• Mandelbrot
• Set

[Goldfrappe]

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?

[xeoncat202]

@MsMrbrown therefore, sex is the meaning of life

[shanforce101]

@pjennings0001that sounds really interesting.... do u hav any more insight as to what it would be like to apply zoom on detail to time....???...i mean ..any interesting outcomes u would excpect?

[NebetSeta]

Maaath! :(

I was never good at math! D:

Still, it's interesting how math can create such beautiful art work.

[pjennings0001]

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

[BesitzenDUBBED]

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?

[Disposition446]

Im so glad I decided not to get high before watching this.

[Imforthewhales]

@purpurpledog8 lol, gr8 comment!

[JustSomePerson888]

@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.

[xxxrrrxxxrrr]

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.

[BenjaminMJ]

@purpurpledog8 the matrix

[Mainganens]

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..