Fractal, mysterious but theorized as one of geometrics though many unknowns. By far the most unique feature of all is so called Self-Similarity. Its whole appearance or shape emerges when a part of the whole magnified again and if in the emerged shape a part is further magnified, then a similar shape is found again.
Once being fascinated by it, inspiration may come to you, such as; —– What if the universe is one of Fractal Geometries? Maybe then the issue of the conflict between Theory of Relativity and Quantum Theory could be settled by applying the concept of Fractal, perhaps? —– Or, as often emerges in Fractal Geometry is shapes of something that gives impression of lifeform especially of a sort of plants, lifeforms are also ruled by self-similarity, isn’t it?
Space and Time, if it is properly quantized, maybe Fractal emerges or not? In an instant of a past, the information of the space at that instant remains in a form of photons etc. If so then the infinite chain of those instants may possibly form a kind of self-similarity.
Turning to the idea of a relation between lifeform and fractal and attempting to find Fractal in the shape of lifeform, nevertheless the attempt will surely be of failure. You see, if a part of lifeform is visually magnified by microscope, surely cells can be observed that is not self-similar to the lifeform at all.
Fractal in Human Body! No! Impossible!
Furthermore, by further magnifying it with such technique of bio-chemical can also be viewed is the famous Double Helix of DNA.
DNA contains design and fabrication drawings and specification data of lifeform, to put it another, it is information.
Fractal as structure of information, it could be!
Information! Yes, Yes, Yes! Appearance or “how the lifeform looks”, is also information. Therefore, if the same (or better expressed as “Similar”) information is reserved in DNA, this kind of relation can be considered as self-similarity and therefore as fractal, to some extent.
Oh No! Don’t take such a crazy leap! Calm down otherwise I will be scolded by specialist or academics in this field.
No, I continue stubbornly. let it go! (humming the phrase of that song)
So, how further can it be magnified? In fractal, self-similarity appears again and again. Therefore, it should be so!
Yes! It is being hidden in a dimension or domain of “Spirit”. There the essence of human spirit takes shape. The essence of course is also information.
Then what will be the next level? Sorry, I don’t know. I am not specialist then. I am just being drunk.
Fractal Geometry does not convey exactly of physical appearance of something physical existence rather it might express some sort of fundamental, basic or essence such as law of physics, characteristics of life form etc. Theory of Relativity states that every single coordinate axis keeps the law of physics the same (similar?) as it is in any others, regardless of its motion. If the law of physics is considered as a kind of Geometry then it can be of self-similarity, I think.
Geometry in general can be considered as information, therefore even if direct appearance of things are different completely from each other, the information it contains could be similar to others and then if the integrated whole of the things forms a unit, the unit may be considered as Fractal.
Also, like DNA, each individual has its own DNA separately and independently. However if you see DNA as information then one DNA will never be independent of others, rather one surly be linked to others throughout or along with time, space or evolution process. That could be linked to concept of fractal, I feel it, if not having any proof though.
I’m having concern about development of Fractal Geometry. It caused once a sensation or impact on science and technology, however it has been somewhat gradually vanishing nowadays, it seems to me. Perhaps to be accused is economy.
Sahara desert is considered as once was a dense forest millions years ago. There are some theories for the reason why it turned into desert. One of them is a theory of “Earth experienced a dangerous tilt in axis about 84 million years ago”. Because of that dynamic and huge scale of the impact, Sahara could not keep its forest.
The Sahara swings between ‘lush’ and ‘desert’ every 20,000 years, in sync with the Earth’s tilt
So, substances that were essential to vegetation became sand.
In a cave around Florida, stalactites and stalagmites are found, that contain a layer of ash content. By chemically analyzing the layer, something detected is specific chemical components that is likely originated from vegetation in Sahara.
Then the layer can represent when the layer was formed. From this finding, they guessed that there might have been large scale forest fire in Sahara. The timing then is found to be consistent with the start of desertification.
I forgot the exact article from which I learned it but here put the similar one as reference.
Stalagmites Help Scientists Trace Ancient Wildfires
African savanna was once a natural pasture field dense with grass for herbivores. But the grass were almost lost, turning the field into savanna. Herbivores consumed the grass field into savanna.
So, what has recently been done by Human can also be the same as those done by nature. Therefore its only the matter of short term or long term, anyway eventually something would be lost after all. Then, why we have to preserve eco-system? It’s not necessary!
Oh ——– I am such an extremist!
Let’s see the difference between “By Human” and “By Nature”.
The example of Sahara, you see, its resource for sustaining bio-flourishing eco-system is now being transferred to Amazon rainforest. Maybe this flow of vitality is part of dynamic servo or feedback loop that is keeping any such shift within reversible balance..
Nature knows the precise balance for reversible.
In case of savanna, though an extent of grass field have disappeared, animals are surviving there. Maybe now balance between supply and demand have well been settled. Probably, Nature knows here again “how”.
OK then, what about mass-extinction, our mother Earth have experienced so far? Are they all being that balance state of reversible, or say sustainability? After such mass-extinction, lifeform always were able to show its resilience. That’s why we are here on the earth right now.
All right, so if natural mass-extinction is permitted, then can another mass-extinction be allowed even if it is caused by human?
No matter how rapid the change is, everything destined to change and lost. Therefore, is there any point in keeping things as it is? Even if things get irreversible, being complete opposite of reversible state after natural mass-extinction, nevertheless there is nothing being forever. So, we do not need to care about anything like balance or reversible or sustainable.
I disagree with myself!
What matters most is our bond with nature. If we do not care about it then we will lose the meaning of ourselves. Nnnnnnn, I can’t have clear idea of justifying the superiority of “By Nature” against “By Human”. It’s like justifying the meaning of life like something conveyed by Albert Camus. Maybe the bond are the rock of Sisyphe.
Sorry Mr. Albert Camus, I just refer to your great work in this kind of idle talk.
Today, the theme of this article is now getting quite a bothering but I am able to insist that I love nature as presently is so I do not want to lose it, in my life at least, the beauty of nature found in Amazon Rainforest, Sahara Desert, Savanna field etc.
Oh another sip of sake can be the only salvation to me. (Don’t drink too much of it anyway L.O.L)
It was around 40 years ago, when I read that legendary book (to me though) “Entropy”. The author is Jeremy Rifkin.
In the book being argued is, I slightly remember, that if solar power is to be the fundamental basis of our energy system, the system of social and economy should be changed to something of decentralized because solar power, as it is toward natural flora and fauna, is a type of decentralized system.
Sunlight over the mother earth is not the sort of laser beam nor burning fire in furnace. It is always providing sufficient amount but not being in a manner of concentrated for any life forms, well equally distributed to anything that need to thrive.
Plants need it, for photosynthesis in order to gain starch that is the energy reserve. Then animals can collect it by eating plants. Plants, there are a lot of types in a woods or forest well dispersed through extended area, where sunlight is falling over like drizzling rain.
By contrast, some kinds of power system like thermal power plant or nuclear are the system of centralization and therefore it can well fit capitalism and inclination of population to concentrate in urban area.
Everything has its own limit is quantity and therefore that way of concentration has almost reached to the limit in an accelerating manner causing issues of environment and sustainability, say, issues of Carbone-Free, SDG, etc.
One of the solution, some specialists are suggesting, is solar power but then those contexts in the above implicates that as well as energy source the economical and social system should also be “adapted” to the nature of solar energy.
So, does anyone know such approach of changing economy and social formation into something that could well fit renewable energy like solar? Or if the present solutions being offered are just an extension to the present “rudimentary” one, maybe we will be easy prey to entropy.
Thinking of modern network technology, integration or concentration of people’s knowledge, consciousness, communication whatsoever can be established without a sort of physical system while each single value can also be respected like plants in forest. If the identification of what is to be concentrated and what is to be decentralized is done in a sophisticated manner, then solar power can well be fit into our life.
Honestly saying, the direction of SDG etc. currently being observed looks not toward that way.
War in Ukraine alike was caused by, to some extent, the negative effect of entropy. After the WWII, the world, it looked so at that time, established well organized minimum entropy state in the world order. Then it has recently been found that the world have not kept the entropy low so far, allowing Russians to start such devastating and stupide war.
So, energy and environment system could also plunge into such increase of entropy because, as we see in that war, human still placing the priority on conserving the rudimentary system rather than leaping toward minimizing entropy.
Anyway, this is just an opinion of ignorance who is pretending to be a scientist.
Is it possible? Such a thing, to have scientific view on the dictator.
What is happening in Ukraine now is apparently bad thing in many ways. The issue is not of science though how can we avoid putting our eyes on it rather we definitely are thinking of it. Thus, on this edition, the thought over the issue of that war is being liberated while the objective of this blog is somehow maintained. So, for you who just has happened to start reading this, my apologize, if you don’t mind, please be patient with this one sided context for a while.
Russian people who know the truth, Ukraine people and people of any other countries seem to think of “What a stupide thing those recent events are!”. And maybe many people want to say “Stop him!”.
My colleague who is Polish said “He is crazy”. And he said that his farther is thinking of providing houses for Ukrainian refugees.
In any case, that person, “He” must not be anything other than a dictator.
However, why a single person who is being dictator, and/or his inner circle cannot be stopped? What does allow such a members to exist?
There has been a news article on TV that an institute in USA has started analyzing his psychological state. Probably, some kind of so called criminal profiling is now underway. I understand that criminal profiling is a process of characterizing the criminal with methods of psychology and other several scientific approaches. (Psychology is one of the areas of science, I think.)
In addition to the above, being considered is mass psychology. I mean, this time, the psychological state of people who are ruled by a dictator.
In case that just a few people are doing something wrong, it seems to be enough for us all to ignore the people or to hold them with nelson hold while saying “What you are doing is wrong!” and “We will never do such a thing!”. But in reality, it is not realistic. If I were a Russian, I would be silent even though I knew the truth somehow. Dictator is something of fearful indeed.
It is expected probably that mass psychology is ruled by exponential and therefore once it enters into a loop of proliferation it will be hard to stop it. One’s thought affects other two persons then each of the two persons have an effect on another two persons respectively in the mean time the initial person who started spreading the thought will find the spread of the thought and be encouraged to spread it further again. You see, this is a kind of feedback effect. Once that effect starts, mass psychological state explodes, formulating it firmly.
Long time ago, in Russia (at that time was Soviet), When Gorbachev was still the top leader and Yeltsin had started having been as prominent political figure, in my memory there was an attempt of military coup. (1991.Aug. 19) At that time, Russian people strongly rose opposition and Yeltsin responded. And finally the coup attempt failed.
They say, the dictator now is putting his people under information control. It has been reportedly stated that soldiers were deprived of their smart phones before the military invasion. (Nonetheless, it could also be considered for avoiding leaking of such information as the position of the soldiers etc. through their smart phones.) It somehow possibly looks like he had been contemplating it, before the operation, to eliminate the possibility of the similar event as 1991.Aug. That event which might have been possibly caused by mass psychological phenomena.
A report has been broadcasted that Russians attacked nuclear power plant though the manner of the attack looks avoiding damages on nuclear reactor itself. Anyway, it maybe because of the rational commander chief.
He has recently implied use of nuclear weapon, which suggests that he may think bluntly that “Why not? Using it gives it a status of deterrence”. I have heard of Stalin that there was an episode in which he might have been putting priority on military power than human personality That dictator who is now rampaging over Ukraine may possibly be the same.
Majorities of specialists say; He has been losing his temper thereby stating of nuclear weapon so the state of his mind is dangerous. But, is that really true? It possibly be regarded as carrying out things based on a calculation somehow. It appears that he has known long before that international public opinion will never support his position. So, because of that he has been stating something illogical or inconsistent thing intentionally well, with that other countries have been bewildered while the military operation continues. And then he has been well aware of the importance of taking control over the thought of his own people. He then deprived them of correct information, driving them in a state of neutral by having both sides, opposition and support, coexisted in balance.
Here at this point, if it is possible for us to analyze his psychological state in scientific manner, the above concern can be eased to some extend. For instance, simply considered though, by having AI studied a listing of facts and logical grouping of the facts like the table below (conceptual) may possibly his present state of mind be deeply studied.
If anything that is obtained from this profiling reveals his present state of mind, it may be understood how he can be terminated.
Facts and references
Group
Information control over people
Intended Plot
Seize nuclear power plant without causing any serious damages
Intended Plot
Removing Russia from SWIFT
Expected
He stated, initially, the purpose was to protect Russians in eastern Ukraine
Flexibility
He said that the purpose of the attack on nuclear power plant is to prevent Ukraine from developing nuclear weapon.
Flexibility
Coup in 1991/8/19 was put an end by Russian people
Psychological trauma
He once was in KGB, lived in east Germany and at Fall of the Berlin Wall, he experienced a feeling of humiliation.
Psychological trauma
Typical feature of the voice a person who tells a lie in a speech
Unhidden Psychological Factor
Feature of his voice in his resent speech.
Unhidden Psychological Factor
WWII; events flow from Munich Agreement to Invasion of Poland
History Repeats
Minsk Protocol – Annexation of Crimea – This time of military invasion to Ukraine
History Repeats
Or not that way, rather even if his state of mind is understood, it may not be reached an idea of how to terminate him. Anyhow, he may be considering that he is being formulated on the very presence of his own people and therefore he is concerned about a state in which opposition against him turns to exponential. This assumption could be supported by taking into consideration the points raised in the above table “Coup in 1991/8/19 was failure by Russian people” and “Information control over people”. Having been considered the above, using AI may give us an idea about how to terminate him. instead of seeking his state of mind.
However clearly AI concludes that Power of People in Russia is necessary, it may not be certain to be able to find, for AI, the way of how to proliferate exponentially the power of people to the extent that can corner the war to stop. Simply AI would say, “Spread it on SNS”. No matter how clearly it is stated, people are under information control and it is uncertain of how to. Even if there is no such thing as SNS, there may or may not be a method of inducing the power of spirits of human, I wonder. And I wonder if it is possible or not to create a society where such things as dictator never emerges fundamentally.
Finally today, having written those miscellaneous things in untidy manner, after all, what matters most extremely is the fact that children in Ukraine have been killed. This should absolutely be stopped immediately, however we are too powerless. How would William Blake who criticized Scientific Materialism say at this situation?
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