[ExI] symmetrical 11-Venn discovered

[J.R. Jones]

On Aug 14, 2012 10:42 AM, "scerir" <scerir at alice.it> wrote:
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> Anders writes:
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>> In general, I expect that fractals often emerge because the universe
also tends to follow simple rather than complex programs. Even when these
programs make organisms it is easier to grow and evolve recursive
structures than non-recursive ones. So the important and deep question is
what forces affect what programs get run, and what kind of simplicity is
optimized for.
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> That reminds me of a paper by Berry showing that a quantum wave
> in a box evolves from a uniform state and the graph of the evolution
> of the probability density is both fractal in space and in time. There
are, in addition to these time and space fractals, infinitely many 'quantum
revival' times, when the probability density is constant.
> http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/people/berry_mv/the_papers/Berry275.pdf
>
> But there are chances that Anders already knows all that :-)
>

All of this reminds me of

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science

Truly fascinating stuff.
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