Eoin Griffin
Posts: 1
Nickname: egriffin
Registered: Oct, 2011
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Re: Fractal Duality and the Nature of the Universe
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Posted: Oct 16, 2011 8:42 PM
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Dale, I'm a fellow physics-loving programmer, and i think that fact makes our thought processes similar enough that we both reached this same conclusion, albeit by completely different paths. I reached the same conclusion very recently of the fractal nature of the universe and the pattern i'm seeing in everything since that day is absolutely blowing my mind.
I've been told by several people that i should write my theory down, but some simple research has shown me that i am by no means the first person to figure this out. On top of that, each time i've tried to explain it to someone, i thought i had them with me for a while, and then i realised they were missing something vital. The problem is that i had to talk in words and analogies. You put it well when you said "Every problem I ever solved was nothing more than a gross simplification of the real system I was modeling." I used a similar analogy just yesterday when discussing this with a friend. Mine was that by attempting to teach this concept i'm painting a simplified picture of the universe (for obvious reasons) and every time someone asks me another question about the painting, it's like they're saying "Oh, but this isn't the universe, you forgot pluto." or "but this isn't the universe. Where's religion in this painting?". The task of writing it down and being completely accurate with it is an impossible one unfortunately, but if someone thinks like you do, this short snippet will be enough. The more details you add, the more it clouds the core idea. I think you know what i mean by that. You've probably had a similar experience yourself.
Anyway, just wanted to thank you for being one of the people to write this down in a similar way to what i would have done. Having different methods of reaching the same conclusion is inevitable, but this one will help programmers and logical thinkers like ourselves.
I'm currently struggling with the concept of duality too, it's quite a tricky one, but at the very least, seeing the fractal pattern of the universe has already made me a better programmer :)
You might find this video worth watching. From a wiser man than us (and he also IS us at the same time :D ). I hope you haven't ended your exploration just yet.
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