[karl 12]

Well they look pretty similar - any ideas?

[Particle Noun]

karl 12, on 04 November 2009 - 09:46 AM, said:

Well they look pretty similar - any ideas?

On a prosaic level (although not really that prosaic) one can look at this as a manifestation of the Fractal nature of reality. The patterns of the greatest are mirrored in the patterns of the lowest.

One of the truest statements of ancient hermetic philosophy is "As is above, so is below". The cosmos is to be found in ourselves.

[karl 12]

Hey Particle Noun thanks for the reply -I agree with your comments about the miniscule and the macroscale and its interesting that you mention fractals.
If you've not seen it before theres a great documentary below featuring interviews about the fractal universe with such luminaries as Stephen Hawkings,Arthur C Clarke and Dr Mandlebrocht:

Part 1 of 6:


Like that quote BTW
Cheers.

[Particle Noun]

I'm a huge fractal junkie. Have been since I heard about them in early '90s. One of my passions has to include them in form and spirit into my art. Here are a few examples:

[karl 12]

Love it -great pics!

If you're a fractal junkie then heres a good link for you

http://www.incubism..../ultraAnim.html

Cheers.

[Particle Noun]

karl 12, on 04 November 2009 - 01:45 PM, said:

Love it -great pics!

If you're a fractal junkie then heres a good link for you

http://www.incubism..../ultraAnim.html

Cheers.

AMAZING! Thanks!

[Hugh]

Google "liminocentric universe" to get some info on this...

Here's a link I've always enjoyed reading; it's "A Conversation with Physicist Brian Greene"

http://tap3x.net/EMBTI/j6greene.html

Here's a quote from the above:

The familiar extended dimensions, therefore, may very well also be in the shape of circles and hence subject to the R and 1/R physical identification of string theory. To put some rough numbers in, if the familiar dimensions are circular then their radii must be about as large as 15 billion light-years, which is about ten trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion (R= 1061) times the Planck length, and growing as the universe explands. If string theory is right, this is physically identical to the familiar dimensions being circular with incredibly tiny radii of about 1/R=1/1061=10-61 times the Planck length! There are our well-known familiar dimensions in an alternate description provided by string theory. In fact, in the reciprocal language, these tiny circles are getting ever smaller as time goes by, since as R grows, 1/R shrinks. Now we seem to have really gone off the deep end. How can this possibly be true? How can a six-foot tall human being 'fit' inside such an unbelievably microscopic universe? How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? (Greene, The Elegant Universe, pages 248-249)

[ChloeB]

Karl, have you heard anything about the holographic universe theory? This is what this picture makes me think of. Take apart a hologram, you just get smaller wholes. Here's some recent discoveries about that too:
http://www.scienceda...90203130708.htm

[stevesrd]

Here is something for mankind to imagine. If the purpose of a cell is to serve the body, to maintain the body. Then what if the purpose of mankind is to eventually do the same for the universe, to serve the universe, to maintain the universe, do you understand? It is only mankind's ego that leads humanity astray since it has lost or forgotten its purpose. But that purpose may again some day be understood, and humanity may again serve the universe.