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Might fractal geometry finally reconcile general relativity and quantum theory?

Asked by Zuma (5908points) December 1st, 2009

Lately I’ve been awed by how often chaos theory and its fractal geometry turn up.

In this article it appears that quantum space-time and the curvature of Euclidean space may be explained by fractal dimensions. And here is an article on how fractals may make sense of quantum weirdness. Here is another more technical article.

Fractals and chaotic dynamics also seem to keep turning up in the structures and dynamics of brains, nervous systems, and possibly even consciousness itself. EEGs, for example, have fractal properties (“noise” in general has a fractal distribution). And fractals also seem to be intimately in all sorts of information exchange, and seem to reconcile wave-like and particle phenomena, as in photosynthesis and the fractal design of antennae. Fractals also have a temporal dimension, which would seem to be key to any study of consciousness.

I don’t understand it all, but it looks to me as though some major pieces of the puzzle of the ultimate nature of reality are starting to come together. Is anyone else getting this sense?

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