Sunday, March 20, 2011

Mirrored Images





This is a fractal. I have been facinated by them since Advanced Math in 7th grade. A fractal is a fragmented geometric shape which is a copy of a whole, indefinetly. Meaning, you look into each of these designs inside and it's an exact copy of the large that goes on forever. Like Pi (3.14159.......etc), it's neverending.


I stayed "up late" with my husband last night and was pondering on the universe and everything it encompasses and the main focus was, "what would my thought process look like if every possible outcome was branched off into another? What kind of fractal would it be?"


I have this theory that everything goes in cycles. Circles persay. Everything breaks down to the same point you started at. The best example I can think of without too much detail is fashions. They cycle through and keep coming back to each other. The infinity symbol is a continuous circle. So when pondering this idea I think ultimately my branched thought processes would be circular but I'm super curious as to what the inside would look like.


The human brain intrigues me as well. It's limitless and freightening. If I could put onto paper everything I thought in the order I thought it, the papers would be endless. To think the majority of adults only use a small portion of their brain matter at any given time. (And some people you can tell only use a small portion....) That's pretty amazing.


Think about things on a larger scale. Can you? Think about past, present and future simultaniously. Is it possible?

Look how far civilization and technology has come in the last 100 years. Look where we are now. What will it be like in the next 100 years? just our generation alone has seen leaps and bounds. For instance cell phones. We were pretty young when they came out and they were the sizes of suitcases and now you can fit a whole computer, telephone, and camera set up in something the size of a watch. Amazing. I'm truely curiously terrified of what the human mind can think of, invent and execute and what that holds for us in the future. Leaps and bounds mankind. Leaps and bounds.


High five humankind! Right on!

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