A New Theory that Explains the Mysteries of Life with Dr. Neil Theise
Smart People Podcast
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The Edge of Chaos
Fractal geometry is the mathematics that embodies chaotic systems. To understand how water molecules line up in a nice cube, we need geometry. For explaining things like frost crystals and the structure of trees you needed to have fractal geometries. But when we say we couldn't know about it until computers, is it because the mathematical complexity was unknown? And is it basically saying there is a predictability to these things? There are no such things as 'futile' or 'inevitable', but they can be predicted by mathematicians.
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