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The Principle of Universality

The idea of universality was sort of elaborate on and had a formal meaning when renormalization group, right, dealing with face transitions came up. But it's actually much more fundamental than that. In basic physics, we learn about pendulum or an oscillator. And we learned that the same math describes music, right, the vibrations of strings. So why does the same thing describe that and also describes cycles, right? You can use it to describe, you know, human cycles or, or, I mean, in a simple way, everything is cyclical,. Also is like an oscillator in some sense, their cyclical behavior. The reason it happens goes back to this multi

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