Fractal Dimensions – Twilight Zone? No, Nature!
A group of scientists is calculating how fast a chicken can fly. The physicist begins – “Let us first assume a spherical chicken …”
This is a favorite punch line of physics jokes.
What brings a smile to the face is that the joke makes a point about the absurdity of some assumptions. The real world is not nice and smooth and symmetrical, like straight lines, circles, squares, spheres, cubes, and such. If it were, it would greatly simplify calculations.
The French mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot was one of the first to bring fractal geometry to our consciousness, which can be used to describe nature more accurately. He coined the term, “fractal,” derived from the Latin fractus meaning “broken” or “fractured.”
A fractal can be defined as having the following features:
It is too irregular to be easily described in traditional Euclidean geometry.
It is self-similar (at least approximately).
It has a fine structure at arbitrarily small scales.
It can have a dimension which is greater than its topological dimension.
It has a simple and recursive definition.
Natural objects that approximate fractals include clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, snow flakes, tree leaves, the convoluted surfaces of our brains, even some of the vegetables we eat.
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