Is this the ultimate example of fractals in nature?

) November 20th, 2010

Check this photo and tell me this isn’t fractals at their finest.

If this is so, then within our very own brain cells should be another planet earth with living people on it.

Am I reading too much into this? Are we floating around as the many thoughts inside the mind of another being? Are the little dudes inside of us going to little McDonalds and having little burgers with little fries, causing little heart attacks that pay out little life insurance policies to little widows and their little children? Do they have even littler people inside their brain cells?

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I would hate to think that there were little McDonalds in my head – I would hope that the little people wouldn’t support little CAFO-style manu-farms and create little environmental disasters.

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It might not be you doing the thinking @iamthemob. It might be the little lunatics in our heads.

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It’s common to think that subatomic particles are little planets orbiting around each other, but there are so many problems with this idea. The two compared photos are relatively simple mathematical shapes that are likely to happen at a number of scales. This does not mean that the entire universe is a self-repeating shape.

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