Uh oh. That Bacteria is about to get a cease and desist letter from Nintendo's legal team for copyright infringement. Lmao.

@KaraKobold

Ай бұрын

was about to say something about this, but ill upvote instead =p

@Lady8D

Ай бұрын

🏆

@kolobus101

Ай бұрын

if anything this means we can use the shit out of it because it is a naturally forming pattern

@sal2975

Ай бұрын

😂

@yong9613

Ай бұрын

I think those wonderful people who publish the papers with that nomaclature will get legal letters first

the fact that bacteria can triforce is WILD ▲ ▲ ▲

@vincentvoillot6365

Ай бұрын

Bacteria holding the molecule above it self : "You obtain the fractal molecule, you can now fractalize"

@skaughtii

Ай бұрын

Holy shit this brought me back wtffffff 😂😂😂

@juanyz5351

Ай бұрын

The legend of Synechococcus Elongatus

@ToneyCrimson

Ай бұрын

▲ ▲ ▲

@ToneyCrimson

Ай бұрын

Oh no i messed it up...i guess im a newf......i will stop before people get mad.

I watch your channel regularly. Not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that you would ever cover one of my papers. Love your work!

@Napoleonic_S

Ай бұрын

This is your study? What will be done after this discovery?

@illegal_space_alien

Ай бұрын

It's like the realization from musicians that Weird Al covered their song. That's how you know you've truly made it.

@oscareriksson9414

Ай бұрын

Cool discovery!🎉

@smellystinker4837

Ай бұрын

​@@illegal_space_alien 🤓 actually.... weird Al always asks for permissions before doing a parody xx

@EsonIndustries

Ай бұрын

@@smellystinker4837 Then its like the realization from musicians that when Wierd Al asks permission to cover their song, thats how you know you've truly made it.

The Legend of Bacteria: Fractal of the Wild is a classic. Love that one.

Where is Link when we need him

@justinanderson267

Ай бұрын

Last I heard he was hosting a boxercise event called Hiyah Hyrule

@nornalhumsn7167

Ай бұрын

It's a secret to everybody

@caneyebus

Ай бұрын

It IS the Link

@ganon144

Ай бұрын

Hes ... uh... gone sorry

@zodammit

Ай бұрын

Apparently the Princess got kidnapped by Ganon....again. And this is just rumor but some chambermaids say she and 'Dorfie' text alot.

I’m a geologist and fractals are dominant in many geologic features. That’s why geologist’s photos always have something like a pen, notebook, person or car, etc., in them for scale, a little tiny fault can otherwise look the same as one 500 feet tall, for example.

@hah-vj7hc

21 күн бұрын

I've always had this thought that macro and micro are essentially similar and kind of a matter of perspective. I've started thinking about it when I learned that electrons revolve around the nucleus just like our Earth around the sun and the sun around the Milky Way etc.

@justdenisecurtains

18 күн бұрын

​@@hah-vj7hcmore like how the Sun/Proton and Moon/Electron move around earth as we observe them the same size and the planets/wandering stars also make geometric patterns with the path they make around the geocentric contained universe with water above the firmament/electronagentic toris field. *Hence why the sky is blue :) (7D, not flatearther)

Power, Wisdom, Courage

Anton should be at 1.8 billion subs. Such an undiscovered gem.

@webmaristocrat4052

Ай бұрын

Billions must learn

@pablomoreira8227

9 күн бұрын

He may have lost a lot of those people with his terminator smile in the end of the video ^^

This is important as we are very close to using biology to build geometric structures at a molecular level, meaning we could grow filters, transistors and molecular scaffolds for stem cells.

@Distress.

Ай бұрын

Imagine your computer catching a virus

@skivvy3565

Ай бұрын

I think there’s already a PC build that uses mycelium and fungi colonies as parts on the cob for it... video up here on yt somewheres

@Suiseisexy

Ай бұрын

Surveillance devices that report your real time sensory output to the authorities, immortality for rich people only, paper thin armor that can be applied to anything and makes everything so terrorism proof the current political hierarchy will potentially reign forever, right up until someone invents a munition with indestructible penetrators so small and so powerful they penetrate this armor and turn the human being beneath into a cloud of dust and juices that both intermixes and boils such that it turns into a substance the boys in R&D have been calling "slurm".

@jeffery9543

Ай бұрын

@@Distress.Yeah. Imagine that. How crazy.

@Random-xw3qc

29 күн бұрын

​@@Distress. Well you can't transmit a common cold over the internet so the only way for a computer to catch a biological virus would be if you had one. (Or friends, family, pets, or wherever you use your computer)

Mandelbrot would have lost his mind 😂😂😂 "I told ya ! I Told ya !!!"

@carrieeloff2220

Ай бұрын

❤

@keirfarnum6811

Ай бұрын

James Gleick too!

@ConnoisseurOfExistence

Ай бұрын

Maybe he's seen romanescu broccoli

@siinxx7656

Ай бұрын

That bacteria be living in the 2.5 dimension no cap

@daveyjones8969

Ай бұрын

Check out the z axis of the Mandelbrot Set...and get your minds blown.

Them bacteria boutta play an ocarina 💀

@emrakultheaeonstorn7430

10 күн бұрын

And put on a mask!

@tf2juice

9 күн бұрын

@@emrakultheaeonstorn7430 they gon get them hyrule clout

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: Bacteria of the Wild

If Saturn can have a hexagon, fractals in bacteria ought to be a cinch.

@JamesDavy2009

Ай бұрын

Hexagons are the bestagons! Saturn had taste.

@TheAbysssarian

Ай бұрын

​@JamesDavy2009 😋😋😋

@adriangogioiu2611

Ай бұрын

If you are talking about the weird storm on the saturn pole you are wrong... It have not a perfect hexagonal form and it have a perfectly reasonably explanation...

@bugsy742

Ай бұрын

⁠@@adriangogioiu2611I don’t think you have the brain capacity to understand the comment! 😮

@chriswise7978

Ай бұрын

What is the reason?​@@adriangogioiu2611

Sierpinski is also a shape used for cell phone antennas. Maybe the bacteria use these as teenie weenie communication devices.

@sCiphre

Ай бұрын

Whoa whoa, you can't just say things like that, or biologists might start falling off of their chairs.

@hm09235nd

Ай бұрын

interesting point! reinforces the imagined line between pathology and ‘daemonic’ interference. if bacteria etc in some sense have hive-like properties or propagate information in the ether as if a super organism. fascinating.

@MrMartinSchou

Ай бұрын

Is this the dreaded 5G infections they're talking about?

@zodammit

Ай бұрын

@@hm09235nd complex life did evolve as mobile chassis for bacteria to get around

@abundance_In_Motion

Ай бұрын

Interesting

So cool seeing your panoramic scanning abilities in action. From the macro to the micro, the reason why I donate to your site. Always a refreshing wake up call is one manner of expressing it. Thank

No accidents. No coincidences.All by design.All with a purpose and function. Perfection all aound us and within us. A lot we don't know. A lot we have forgotten.

This video made my day. Currently I'm writing my thesis on modeling cities with fractals and I noticed that they appear in multiple and unexpected places. Whether they can serve biological functions or not, they are beautiful and I'm glad that the scientific community continues to study them. Wonderful shapes for wonderful intelligences in a wonderful world.

@odapunkt

Ай бұрын

Thats really interesting! I want an entire city made of fractals! But maybe that already exists🤔 what do you think?

@mainalterego2506

Ай бұрын

oh thats interesting! i have been explaining reaction diffusion and turing patterns by looking at european city growth..do you think these perspectives have synergies?

@billable1861

Ай бұрын

I think for space and cost it would theoretically maximize efficiency but in actual practice, I think it would be a nightmare. It’s would be like going to HOA housing block where all the houses are the same and you can’t even remember which house is your own from a glance. I think it would make your grubhub order about 10x longer lol

@ovoj

Ай бұрын

What/where are these multiple and unexpected places?

@newolde1

Ай бұрын

Yes, please explain more!

Thanks! Long overdue. Beautiful pics tonight and great narration

@athar_adv

25 күн бұрын

Imagine donating 50 dollars but having absolutely no replies after 3 weeks, I'll be the first one to say thank you for donating to one of my favorite creators :D

@dar540

25 күн бұрын

Yeah a good cut of it goes to KZread too unfortunately

@user-xi1tk1db7d

22 күн бұрын

​@@dar540😂

@Zeratul3598

16 күн бұрын

🤟

@user-xi1tk1db7d

16 күн бұрын

Still no answer 😂😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Once again, another great vid. Got to share this with my mate, it's right up his street. Congrats on the nearly 1.3 million subscribers. Keep it up you legend. Cheers Anton..

@user-fg5xs9lh7s

Ай бұрын

It's up his street? Your mate lives inside a cyanobacteria?

Bravo, Anton. This is astounding and really interesting! Thank you

The comments section on this video includes: 60% Zelda references 35% New Agers talking woo 5% Other comments

@kevink1575

Ай бұрын

Everyone loves fractals!

@richardoldfield6714

Ай бұрын

Ah yes, the obligatory reference to 'woo' when anything crops up that suggests a possible contradiction of the culturally pre-determined dogmatism of the philosophical physicalism of scientism (as distinct from genuine science). But real science is more open-minded and open-ended, with no need to adopt defensive postures.

@Skylancer727

Ай бұрын

​@richardoldfield6714 No that's incorrect. Science is not an open minded process, science is the process of taking a definitive fact and using observation for understanding. Throwing theories at the window isn't science. Science is the not the process of just imagining ideas, it's the process of study and examination. Something like MOND or string theory is science purely because each explain things were currently don't understand, even if both are likely wrong. Your explanation has to at least be logical on the surface.

@richardoldfield6714

Ай бұрын

@@Skylancer727Incorrect. Science *is* an open-minded process. It does not rule out things without strong evidence to do so ... and even then is open to the possibility of new, contrary evidence emerging later. What genuine science does *not* do is describe as 'woo' anything which conflicts with philosophical physicalism, even if that that philosophy is mainstream within science currently.

@user-gv4cx7vz8t

Ай бұрын

You act like no aspect of the perennial wisdom has penetrated the sanctum of your cranium. Nearly all discovery is rediscovery. How much of today is like previous days, and how much should you unlearn to be as smart as your ancestors?

Triforce fractal... Wow

@markrockliff2742

Ай бұрын

Yer interesting idea, Tri force fractal. It had me thinking about the inner triangle and the helix and the symbol of the Absolute found in the Enneagram model representative of the synergetic properties of The Nine Energies.

@marial3231

26 күн бұрын

Gosh darn what the heck is a triforce fractal????

Love love love your videos Anton, keep it up!

Excellent! Thank you so much for sharing it! 🙏🏼🌷

Life is fractal Time is fractal Universe is fractal .

@theendoftheline

Ай бұрын

phrases that arent true often end in the word... fractal

@sabinrawr

Ай бұрын

You're fractal.

@philippegohier6992

Ай бұрын

@@theendoftheline stop living in the dark age . Time is not linear past present futur Universe look like a brain Trees ,blood vessels are clearly fractal

@philippegohier6992

Ай бұрын

@@sabinrawr yes look my blood vessels and nerve system. Fractal

@vincent21212

Ай бұрын

Spirit finds a way - science is only but a tiny whisp of Spirit

That feel when bacteria can triforce and I can't...

@JoeyY7

Ай бұрын

😂came here to say this

@Urll_Bunyon

Ай бұрын

Yet...

@DioDCynic

Ай бұрын

That bacteria's adn is older and more ancient than yours. Did you get that? .YES .NO

@user-gv4cx7vz8t

Ай бұрын

​@@DioDCynicUm, you mean DNA? Did I miss a joke?

@RobKaiser_SQuest

Ай бұрын

On Windows Alt+30 is the triangle, that's the easy part. Don't use the space key to space out the upper triangle, a lot of websites will delete erroneous spaces at the beginnings of posts, use Alt+255, it produces a space that won't get cut out.

Thank you again Anton!

Remarkable! And this fractal is not going unnoticed! Thank you wonderful person!

Humans use that structure to build mobile phone antennas... Maybe bacterias have been doing the same for millenia XD

@MNbenMN

Ай бұрын

Beware the bacteria revolution. They've been monitoring our radio transmissions! /s

@tinman18004

Ай бұрын

It's the same shape as a micro receiver chip!!! Look up the video DNA is a fractal antenna 📡

@SBImNotWritingMyNameHere

Ай бұрын

I CAN FEEL THE 5G IN MY TUBERCULOSIS RIDDLED LUNGS AUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHH

@davevasquez5010

Ай бұрын

Something something, "phone home", something something.

@tehbonehead

Ай бұрын

Cashing in on that free 5G energy!

It's way more reasonable to assume that this is just for slightly more efficient packing and unpacking of surplus enzymes for better control over metabolism.

@prophetzarquon1922

Ай бұрын

It's an extremely durable structure with nearly maximal surface area; with fewer internal cavities, it would probably miss out on significant RF \ particulate interaction...

@breakingthewall2112

Ай бұрын

Because fractals and the golden ratio are the building blocks of the universe

@festerbutt

Ай бұрын

It would be a hexagon or a circle for efficiency, not a triangle.

@macchiato_1881

Ай бұрын

​@@festerbutthexagons are composed of triangles I hope you realize that

Thanks Anton...excellent as always

Oh this is so cool, serpinski gaskets in yeast! I knew that fractals are everywhere, but to find such flagrant evidence that they pop up in such fundamental life forms is rather overwhelming; Beautiful, simply beautiful!

It definitely feels significant because of how it is perfect.

Just because other shapes do work does not mean that there is no reason for it. We just have not found the reason yet.

@CockMcBallsddd

Ай бұрын

Yea its insane to think there is no reason for it. Nature doesn't waste a lot of effort, especially on something so complex. . .for NO reason. Its silly.

@magne7771

Ай бұрын

The reason is _It's friggin' RAD_

@toymaker3474

Ай бұрын

the bottom line reason is 1.618 aka the divine ratio

@Lady8D

Ай бұрын

Agreed! Not knowing the reason does not necessarily mean there isn't a good reason. Just in case anyone missed it/cares: Anton also said that a couple times, one of em is at 8:50 😊 🫶

@realityisenough

Ай бұрын

??? Why would you talk about other BORING shapes at a time like this. Fun at parties you

Another amazing and clear demonstration of the accidental and yet beautiful formations of sheer mathematics and our universe in action.

3:35 you can see it only links first-order Sierpinski triangles (triforces) together which aren't really fractals as they don't recur within themselves.

Looks like the ANDROMEDA STRAIN

@kingdot2616

Ай бұрын

Great book

@factinator33

Ай бұрын

@@kingdot2616 Indeed

@sunspot42

Ай бұрын

My first thought as well.

@allankolenovsky7028

Ай бұрын

Ya, this is really creepy! I watched the original movie many years ago and as a Biologist it gave me nightmares. It still does to this day. It was an incredibly accurate representation of how we do our work (minus the overkill on the sanitization of the human body).

@Jon6429

Ай бұрын

@@allankolenovsky7028 Have you seen the movie "Warning Sign" from 1984? The lab accident at the beginning is a hoot

Thank you, Anton, for providing us with some positive news in our lives. Sure is neat times we live in.

Thank U wonderful Anton 🎉

I am excited to see when you cover exotic vacuum objects (Ken Shoulders, Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project, John Hutchison, Coherent Matterwave Beams patent Lockheed, Dr Judy Wood, etc)

Every Time I Watch One of Antwon’s Wonderful Videos I Always Think is There Anything That He Has Not Studied About or Been in constant Awe of ? I think he is a Truly Gifted young man and Has a Never-ending Thirst of Learning !!!! We are Lucky to have him !!!

@RaynMao

Ай бұрын

this comment could be an isekai anime title

@yong9613

Ай бұрын

​@@RaynMaoAnton is one isekai MC with OP teaching research and informing powers, it's over 9000!!!

I love this channel. Keeping us up to date on all new science in digestible bites.

Very, very cool! More please.

Yay!!! 🎉 The Sierpinski triangle is my favorite shape! I have a mural of them above my bed and I draw them when I get bored 😄

Bacteria wouldn't speak about the molecule. So we had to triforce.

I drained the toilet water in my trailer and the gas made me hallucinate these fractals. Warning: don’t drain raw sewage without a proper assmask .

@Jordan__Sloan

Ай бұрын

Assmask?

@foxbruner

Ай бұрын

That last sentence quoted out of context may be the greatest typo in human history.

@amygodward4472

Ай бұрын

What the hell...

@deathtech

Ай бұрын

Jenkem

@lowwastehighmelanin

Ай бұрын

Don't freebase fumes, especially not through your ass 💀

That's a huge discovery. Would love to learn more about this.

This is very very cool !!

The fractals brought on by DMT are amazing

@siinxx7656

Ай бұрын

That guy from Gem & Jam of All Gas no Breaks, the one that smoked G funk with the homeless down the bridge be loosing his damn mind when he sees this

I remember the first time I watched a documentary on the Mandelbrot Set and for weeks afterward everywhere and everything I saw in nature was just fractals and it really freaked me out. It was like i could see the matrix... I was just looking at trees and seeing a formula and it freaked me out.

@leoalex2001

Ай бұрын

are you sure it wasn't LSD 😂

@_4200h

Ай бұрын

yeh when i was learning vectors it was the same

@lowwastehighmelanin

Ай бұрын

Yeah they're really everywhere.

@J.Green-Rx

Ай бұрын

Grow weed for a while, and you'll see many plants and trees start resembling buds. Their shapes, I mean. Not kidding, but that shit is funny cause it's such a stoner thing. Huh, now I'm wondering if that's fractals lol.

@nicodesmidt4034

Ай бұрын

Hope you returned to reality a bit 😂

Amazing that were still discovering new things about Cyanobaacteria. Its nice to ponder that this wasnt some kind of happy accident and we just dont grasp the dynamics at work here.

Hey! Hey! Listen! That bacteria is the embodiment of power, courage, and wisdom. All hail the triforce bacteria, the last defense against Ganon!

Thanks Anton. Incredibly interesting!

There is no coincidence. We just haven't figured out what it means yet. Fractals are so cool!

So fascinating! ❤

That is so cool!

I have discovered that these tiny little fractals make me happy

@summerbrooks9922

Ай бұрын

Looking or gazing upon the art self assembly of Fractals seems magical and peaceful.

I love what you do on your channel,all of it

Love you Anton!

This is simply amazing

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 👍😉

Thank you!

One of the key features producing mathematical fractals like the Sierpinski triangle is the scale invariance of the forcing action on an otherwise random generator. That such a scale invariance would persist over at least three orders of magnitude like would be required here is very impressive indeed.

no way, if this was any other channel I wouldn't believe. Pretty amazing!

Think of QR codes....so a Fractal is a 2.01-2.99 dimension of a long enzyme to be folded to occupy less 3d space ...fractal folding helps a lot since its like origami paper folding from Japan

@symbolsarenotreality4595

Ай бұрын

fractals contain the whole within the part, a non linear function, like a hologram

Thank you Anton, for years now you have provided the equivalent of University grade material for millions of people. Much more than could be said for the majority of highly paid, egotistical folks whose sole purpose is their own self aggrandizement and accolades from their “peers”. You exhibit the true definition of what I believe is a teacher, the ability to clearly express an area of interest well enough, to spark the will for the student to find out more. Quite the opposite of what teachers think they should be doing, if what is being brought forth from the University today, is any indication!

Fractals can perform information compression, so perhaps that's why they arise. I'd like to know if there's any evidence for gravitational or temporal fractals.

I can tell how the ancients knew... magic mushrooms. Seeing fractals in one of the biggest common phenomena when consuming psychedelics. There is definitley a deeper meaning to it.

@Broken_robot1986

Ай бұрын

Yeah fractalization of everything you look at is so much fun.

@drnothot

Ай бұрын

Not a bad point, I wasn’t thinking of it like that but I agree

@richardhall5489

Ай бұрын

I've seen fractals as eyelid movies during a gong bath / sound healing. No drugs required. I also astral travelled on a meditation retreat so I'm probably atypical.

@Splozy

Ай бұрын

@@richardhall5489 do you want to buy a bridge?

@richardhall5489

Ай бұрын

@@Splozy 🤔

Wonderful video

I enjoy your vids.

It’s like putting spherical magnets together in that pattern. This is very very cool !!

Fractals are common in crystalline structures. If you consider salts or sugars, fractals wouldn't be surprising.

@ultrastarrz6620

Ай бұрын

Right, and with how quickly bacteria evolve I'm not surprised we're first seeing fractalling in them

when just approaching this via logic it does make sense in my head. It's sort of the most simple/small blueprint to create structures.

Thank you 🙏

40 yrs. ago, i noticed that the white designs found only on OVERO Pinto/Paint Horses are fractal patterns also... God's an Artist!

Didn't I see this in The Andromeda Strain?

@prophetzarquon1922

Ай бұрын

Everybody saying tri-force, but I'm thinking metroid

Wow!!! Amazing!!!

Romanescu broccoli is amazing! I love seeing it in the shops!

3:50 "We have no ides how the ancients new about this." Mmm! 🤔 The ancients may not have known the mathematics of fractals but they certainly had the artistic talent for pattern making.

@wynnnnnnn5227

Ай бұрын

People tend to forget ancient peoples were just as smart as we are, they just didn't have the knowledge and information we do.

@leonardomarquesbellini

Ай бұрын

​@@wynnnnnnn5227 Just as smart, but just as dumb too; intelligence correlates with access to knowledge and isn't exactly static, being developed with use. Modern people do have more access to information, so on average we should be more intelligent than people back then. Of course, that's on average.

@user-gv4cx7vz8t

Ай бұрын

@@leonardomarquesbellini"Intelligence correlates with access to knowledge" seems smug. Perhaps access to stimuli toward thinking, i.e., interesting data is a better metric. After all, so much of what we "know" is not true, and that doesn't make us more intelligent.

@marcus8710

Ай бұрын

Knowledge is verified in its application for the solving of problems. The reason these fractals show up in ancient works is because you could build things with these patterns and they wouldn't fall down as you made them bigger

@leonardomarquesbellini

Ай бұрын

@@user-gv4cx7vz8t nothing smug about people now being more intelligent than people back then, and less intelligent than people will likely be in rhe future. It's just how things are, and how they should be.

All cauliflowers are fractals apparently, not just romanesque

Stacking efficiency? Maybe the pieces can be used for other things and they build up a storage supply until its needed. Like production & consumption phases.

Pretty cool!

😊 Exciting that we can see such teensy-weensyness!

@wynnnnnnn5227

Ай бұрын

There's this super cool method of scanning tiny stuff where they bounce a microscopic needle off of a sample a bunch of times, and then measure how it bounces on different parts. They can then use that data to make a visualization.

@Zeus-sv6wi

Ай бұрын

Thats what my girlfriend said after seeing my penis for the first time :(

That looks a lot like the micophotograph of the organism in "The Andromida Strain".

Cool Anton

Very cool..

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Modern man and his technical triumphs.

Ahhh, my lungs under the microscope. Cool find, thanks for the news Anton. Black hole is also cool.

I love how interested in stuff you are.

it always makes sense, the multiverse is a fractal, thus so is everything inside (and "outside") so are the penta and hexa grams .. congratulations, we've made yet another full loop and are approaching the center of time.

does anyone remember the film adaptation of The Andromeda Strain?

@whereswaldo5740

Ай бұрын

Yup. My dad was a science and health teacher. I remember going to the theater and seeing it on the big screen. I was just a kid but I had seen enough that when I saw that I knew it wasn’t like anything else I’d seen before. He had a really cool magnifying microscope that looked like a milkshake maker that projected onto a white piece of paper. You could trace or draw on it. But was was coolest was like pond water where things were alive and moving around. Some were quite lively. And I remember thinking I’m not taking water in my mouth to have spray battles anymore while swimming.

Wisdom... Courage.. power..

you described why it would make hex-comb pattern, not the fractal triangle pattern.

That's one powerful, courageous, and wise, green little fella!

I understand that cell phone technology took a leap forward when fractal shaped antennas were implemented .

@yong9613

Ай бұрын

Something something efficiency?? 🤔

I've got a buddy who is big into psychedelics, not an abuser if you consider once monthly planned trips, not an abuse. He's working on modeling the things he's seen in CAD and these triangles are among those things.

@CockMcBallsddd

Ай бұрын

Yea you see them often when you take LSD. Or at least I would when I was younger. I'm too old to further that experiment any longer but I'm glad someone still is.

@robertnu3428

Ай бұрын

​@@acmhfmggruidk crackheads be using crack everyday not once a month

@nickwest932

Ай бұрын

​@@acmhfmggru Once a month is not considered addictive behavior. Psychedelics can change the way we perceive the world around us and has helped many people. Plenty of studies to be found that back up that argument.

@the11382

Ай бұрын

​@nickwest932 Most people shouldn't be taking psychedelics without necessary guidance from a professional. The experience can break people and it does happen to some. There's a lot of work involved in integrating the experience.

@nickwest932

Ай бұрын

@the11382 Still, to consider once a month as addicted is a bit much.

One reason why a fractal forms in nature is to create a structure with the greatest surface area while minimizing the amount of material used. So there are very practical applications for fractals in nature.

Stuart Lindsay has done work on the electrical conductivity of proteins, and there's also been some research on the relationship between fractals and electrical conductance, so I'm wondering if there's some intersection?

It's more like a crystal than a true fractal. A fractal provides the same level of detail not matter what the "zoom factor". This cluster of proteins doesn't do that.

@pattygreen8064

Ай бұрын

a crystal is a great example of a fractal....

@PostModernTruth

Ай бұрын

It's a simple fractal, triangles within triangles (potentially within triangles etc. etc.)

@6ixpool520

Ай бұрын

There can be no true fractals in the physical world. The Universe as we know it is discrete, not continuous. So the hard limit to the smallest scale geometry can physically exist is the Planck length.

@B..B.

Ай бұрын

The problem is basically our zoom machines though

@PostModernTruth

Ай бұрын

@@6ixpool520 Anton does also mention that these structures are likely formed by imperfections which causes them to be shaped around the void, hence the fractal. Perhaps the cause of the shape doesn't lie in the physical world?