after my brief discussion with meera on saturday, she kind of pointed out towards one of my themes- chaos and the theory of chaos.in the beginning when i started my research on theory of chaos it dealt with heavy scientific phenomenons and lengthy mathematic formulas.
i was getting really confused about the whole idea.
though i got the basic sense that chaos is basically very systematic arrangement , placed layer upon layer. any change in the initial conditions can lead to unpredictable changes. like flapping of butterflies wings somewhere could cause a storm in another part of the world. chaos id random but not exactly random.
anyways from confused chaos i came across the fact that chaos is made up of fractals.
now that is something i understand. what is fractals, where do they exist , what are they made of.
fractal is a shape that, when you look at a small part of it, has a similar (but not necessarily identical) appearance to the full shape. Take, for example, a rocky mountain. From a distance, you can see how rocky it is; up close, the surface is very similar. Little rocks have a similar bumpy surface to big rocks and to the overall mountain.
its a shape thats repeated again anad agian in various sizes to form a bigger picture.
fractals exist in nature at all levels.
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