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    Why do the same, self-repeating patterns appear in trees, rivers, lightning, and even inside our own bodies? Is there some secret, hidden rule of nature or mathematics that makes these intricate designs appear all over the place? Let’s talk about fractals.
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  • @besmart
    @besmart  Місяць тому +991

    Fractals are cool.

    • @besmart
      @besmart  Місяць тому +105

      Fractals are cool.

    • @saphijau7357
      @saphijau7357 Місяць тому +32

      Fractals are cool.

    • @c.jishnu378
      @c.jishnu378 Місяць тому +9

      Fr.

    • @αβγδε
      @αβγδε Місяць тому +28

      Fun fact: Fractals are being used to create realistic computer-generated landscapes and environments in video games and movies. Their self-similar patterns allow for efficient rendering and an infinite level of detail. They have really cool applications.

    • @akshatrai9007
      @akshatrai9007 Місяць тому +10

      ​@@besmartFractals are cool

  • @αβγδε
    @αβγδε Місяць тому +1426

    Fun fact: Fractals are sometimes used to create realistic computer-generated landscapes and environments in video games and movies. Their self-similar patterns allow for efficient rendering and an infinite level of detail. They have really cool applications.
    Also in future, fractals may be used to improve cooling systems. As they provide infinite surface area in minimum volume, they can theoretically maximise the efficiency of transfer of heat.

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 Місяць тому +14

      Zelda trees

    • @maillardsbearcat
      @maillardsbearcat Місяць тому +10

      We know

    • @mlphyzix
      @mlphyzix Місяць тому +3

      Check out L-systems!
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

    • @spoperty4940
      @spoperty4940 Місяць тому +35

      In real life, the phrase "repeated branching" is better, it's more accurate to the non-infinite nature of things(and the impossibility of a literal mathematical fractal).

    • @JoeBeaudette
      @JoeBeaudette Місяць тому +4

      Did somebody say Minecraft?

  • @mr.least19
    @mr.least19 Місяць тому +382

    Unbelievable. I noticed this exact thing as a child, without a clue about fractals. My veins, lightning, and trees.

    • @zara__xd
      @zara__xd Місяць тому +4

      That’s called Fitrah

    • @mohammadmohd113
      @mohammadmohd113 Місяць тому +3

      @@zara__xd i was about to comment "fitrah" haha

    • @TheResistance000
      @TheResistance000 Місяць тому +5

      @@zara__xdcould you expand on the meaning? I googled it and I can see what the definitions are trying to say but I feel like there’s more to it that I’m not understanding.

    • @TTV_UNIFIED_8
      @TTV_UNIFIED_8 29 днів тому

      X ZZ 8

    • @mohammadmohd113
      @mohammadmohd113 29 днів тому

      @@TheResistance000 Fitrah is a feature or part of the human soul that predisposes every human to instinctively intuit a higher power (God) from the moment they are born, and this intuition can either be subdued or fostered based on a child's upbringing (i.e., how they are raised). This higher power is all-powerful, all-knowing, the most just, the most beautiful, the most subtle, the all-calculating, etc., and has created time and space in a way that reflects His attributes. Just like when a certain carpenter or artist has a signature style, the "style" of God's creation reflects His attributes.
      So the TL;DR of why i wanted to comment fitrah is that, for Muslims, there is nothing in creation that is the way it is by accident. So when our lungs take in CO2 and produce O2 and water, and trees do the exact opposite, and they both look similar (aka the "fractal" thing in this video), they have been designed that way on purpose. And children, who have a very strong "fitrah"-an innate sense that "the sky looks beautiful because God made it" or "that leaf looks like a bee's wing, and a tree's branches, and lightning. that's so cool that they were all made like that"-are more likely to look at things like fractals and see them as signs pointing to their origin (being created by God to specifically look that way).
      I ranted a bit, but I hope that helps somewhat!

  • @phillydragonfly
    @phillydragonfly Місяць тому +515

    Our exterior anatomy is fractal, too. Our arms and legs branch out from our trunk, which then branches out into fingers.

    • @siquod
      @siquod Місяць тому +85

      And then the little tentacles on the fingertips!
      Wait, you have those, right?

    • @Shaunshahriar
      @Shaunshahriar Місяць тому +60

      @@siquod and the antennas on those tentacles. wait am i in the wrong dimention again dammit

    • @hanaisnoya
      @hanaisnoya Місяць тому +4

      🤯🤯

    • @TTV_UNIFIED_8
      @TTV_UNIFIED_8 29 днів тому

      X ZZ 8

    • @ans88682
      @ans88682 29 днів тому +12

      I think that's a "stretch" ... I'll see myself out.

  • @naveengautam9662
    @naveengautam9662 Місяць тому +725

    My brain has formed fractal memories to efficiently learn about fractals.

    • @metasamsara
      @metasamsara Місяць тому +18

      study supersymmetry and apply that understanding to your own cognition, thank me in a decade or two when you start mastering what it truly means.... hint: buddhist monks have figured it out for centuries through buddhist cosmology.

    • @αβγδε
      @αβγδε Місяць тому +11

      @@metasamsara How do you apply supersymmetry to your own cognition? As far as I know, it is related to quantum mechanics.

    • @spoperty4940
      @spoperty4940 Місяць тому

      @@metasamsara Most physicists don't even agree with SUSY, and there is no supporting evidence. In addition, multiple experiments failed to show that SUSY is true, also the Buddhists didn't know about fermion-boson spin correspondence theories, no one even knew anything about particle spin untill 1922, and was only understood later. Not to mention almost all of the things the theory claims to be linked didn't exist(bose-einstein and fermi-dirac statistics etc).

    • @metasamsara
      @metasamsara Місяць тому +21

      @@αβγδε nothing exists without its opposite, push, pull, left, right, up, down, front, back, relax, stress, etc, etc. valid for emotions and for nerve control and for thinking about physics in vectors☯ valid for conflict resolution, for power balance, for physical impacts, for gravity, for magnetism, for oh so many things. in fact, for everything that exists. To manifest you must define, to define you must exclude the rest. to exclude the rest you have to acknowledge it. light doesn't exist without darkness. Everything is like that, and supersymmetry works as a philosophy just as well as to explain quantum entanglement. and quantum mechanics are just what we call science that is ahead of the outdated theory of general relativity. everything is quantum. at every scale, in every context, of every substance or idea, all is quantum. quantum is the inability to simplify in order to explain. quantum is real time physics obeying supersymmetry and regulated by entropy.

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Місяць тому +3

      ​@@metasamsaraYou cool if I copy this into a journal?

  • @AceSpadeThePikachu
    @AceSpadeThePikachu Місяць тому +580

    You know what else we see a lot in nature, especially on large scales? Spheres. Because a sphere is in every way the exact opposite of a fractal; the maximum amount of volume packed into the smallest surface area. All planets and stars are roughly spherical because no one point on the surface of a sphere is further from the center than any other point, so it's the most stable shape for something with a lot of gravity. Likewise, bubbles and water droplets are round because they have a surface tension that wants to hold the finite amount of material as close to itself as possible.

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof Місяць тому +17

      Well said!

    • @taher67
      @taher67 Місяць тому +89

      Like spheres are holding everything in it (surface tension) while fractals are letting go, to gain bigger surface area. Which also reminds me of ying and yang.

    • @carlosdoerner
      @carlosdoerner Місяць тому +34

      That's poetic!
      And to think that both opposites in that sense, fractals and spheres, have the same fundamental origin: Energy minimization.

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof Місяць тому +35

      @@carlosdoerner Fractals to collect, spheres to hold, both with minimal energy cost.

    • @Alannachristin
      @Alannachristin Місяць тому

      @@carlosdoerner🤯

  • @markzambelli
    @markzambelli Місяць тому +161

    A good analogy for Fractional Dimensionality is to crumple up a sheet of paper into a ball... the 3D ball is comprised of a 2D sheet with air gaps... it's 'D' lies somewhere between 2 and 3.
    Self similarity is awesome... take a rough looking stone and hold it up infront of a far-off mountain and close one eye and their similarity is remarkable.

    • @besmart
      @besmart  Місяць тому +27

      Good analogy!

    • @TTV_UNIFIED_8
      @TTV_UNIFIED_8 29 днів тому

      X ZZ 8

    • @JC-justchillin
      @JC-justchillin 25 днів тому +1

      But is the sheet really 2-D?

    • @normalguy246
      @normalguy246 2 дні тому +1

      my brain is vomiting, thank you 🙏🏾

    • @markzambelli
      @markzambelli 2 дні тому

      @@JC-justchillin Technically, because of the 3d nature of the universe, absolutely not... but it's perfect for showing the concept.

  • @Alasdair37448
    @Alasdair37448 Місяць тому +49

    The fact nature always comes up with the most ingenious solutions to problems is truly astounding. It feels me with a sense of wonder and awe.

    • @moonhajung6742
      @moonhajung6742 26 днів тому +3

      hence more of them applied into modern human life through biomimicry, now! 🥺💚

    • @ronniechilds2002
      @ronniechilds2002 17 днів тому +3

      Same here. Some of the simplest, most common-place things in nature can be literally awe-inspiring when you think about them a certain way.

    • @animaticToshiue
      @animaticToshiue 16 днів тому +7

      cause nature is not just accident

    • @gabrielgiorgio-dormon8495
      @gabrielgiorgio-dormon8495 11 днів тому +2

      It’s kinda funny how people denounce God but apply some of his attributes to nature being like ohhhh nature did this 🤡 mf who is nature 🤡

  • @davideverling753
    @davideverling753 Місяць тому +414

    man the Benoit B.(Benoit B.(…) Mandelbrot)Mandelbrot joke is phenomenal

    • @somerndmguy
      @somerndmguy Місяць тому +19

      I legitimately did a golf clap at that one.

    • @alecsyogacorner
      @alecsyogacorner Місяць тому +33

      agreed, immediately texted four of my nerdiest friends and begged them to text the same joke to their four nerdiest friends. and so on

    • @shivasimashau5750
      @shivasimashau5750 Місяць тому +4

      That slapped hard 😂

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Місяць тому +3

      @@alecsyogacorner 😂😂😂😂

    • @MarkoMood
      @MarkoMood Місяць тому +2

      ​@@alecsyogacorner Friends?

  • @davideverling753
    @davideverling753 Місяць тому +262

    given that it neatly explains nearly all of these natural fractals, it seems odd to not talk about the fact that they all just follow the path of least resistance? as a kid i remember that the term “path of least resistance” allowed me to actually understand fractals in our world unlike explanations that just said that these systems somehow prefer maximum efficiency

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Місяць тому +59

      That's really interesting. That could be
      "path of least resistance = preference of maximum efficiency".
      Maybe just a linguistic trick, but, we process things through our own filters. Thanks!

    • @azilbean
      @azilbean Місяць тому +16

      And least competition

    • @peglor
      @peglor Місяць тому +24

      Constructal Theory is a branch of engineering that does this. The idea is to mathematically play off two competing requirements in a system to find the optimum solution. The cost to make more wood in a tree is played off against the increase in leaf surface area for example. Where it gets really interesting is that it can also be used to predict the transition of a flow to turbulence, based on energy minimisation, without any need to model the fluid in detail at all.
      Any system with 2 ways of achieving some requirement, one being quick but expensive and the other being slow but cheap can be modeled this way. A classic example is heat sinking, where for example expensive but more conductive copper and cheaper but less conductive aluminium are used together. The optimum solution creates branched geometries without any guidance but the properties of the materials.

    • @genesises
      @genesises Місяць тому +11

      that's basically what he said but he used the word efficiency, because it has to be efficient too in order to last, not just the easiest path. as someone else said, mostly a linguistic detail.

    • @Sammysapphira
      @Sammysapphira Місяць тому +11

      ​@genesises it's a linguistic detail that matters because it implies different concepts. Saying something "makes it's self the most efficient" makes it seem like it is self governing, conscious, or something is instructing it. In reality, it simply grows towards the path that is easiest to travel. Much like a river travelling down a valley.

  • @christupper0
    @christupper0 Місяць тому +135

    Even the fungal network on the bark follows the same patterns 🍄

  • @mr.giggles4995
    @mr.giggles4995 Місяць тому +41

    I first noticed fractals when I took psilocybin mushrooms when I was younger, they were popping out everywhere. I've been obsessed ever since.

    • @TheResistance000
      @TheResistance000 Місяць тому +5

      I noticed them just naturally when I was younger. I then tried mushrooms and it just enhanced it and I’ve been obsessed with these curious observations as well as others. Just opens up many more questions…

  • @Aliessil
    @Aliessil Місяць тому +95

    Chaos Theory (the mathematics behind fractals) was my favourite module at university, and I've loved fractals ever since. That was over 30 years ago!

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada Місяць тому +2

      chaos is a concept with no relation to reality because 'order' and 'chaos' are just concepts in a relative universe

    • @joseville
      @joseville Місяць тому +15

      @@Purwapada chaos theory has real world applications though. it describes systems that are very sensitive to initial conditions like the weather, double pendulums, and many others. In fact, it was developed by meteorologist/mathematician Edward Lorenz.

    • @wooyoungsdoormat3853
      @wooyoungsdoormat3853 Місяць тому +3

      @@joseville im writing my thesis about this rn :D

    • @Qubitized
      @Qubitized Місяць тому +4

      Can we relate this phenomenon of fractals in nature to entropy?

    • @JohannaKing254
      @JohannaKing254 Місяць тому +1

      Unbelievable. I noticed this exact thing as a child, without a clue about fractals. My veins, lightning, and trees.

  • @mutanix
    @mutanix Місяць тому +128

    My power flurries through the air into the ground
    My souls is spiraling in frozen fractals all around...

  • @munchkenzie
    @munchkenzie Місяць тому +45

    I've always wondered why asphalt roads crack in the branching shape. I didn't start this video expecting an answer to that question but I'm so pleased I got one!

    • @lukeanthony2279
      @lukeanthony2279 20 днів тому +2

      And hitting a window just hard enough for it to spiderweb i now realize its energy that the glass took in 😊😊😊

  • @_Geist
    @_Geist Місяць тому +33

    this video scratches an itch that my brain has had for 30 years. thank you. :)

  • @KierraKoeber
    @KierraKoeber Місяць тому +23

    I remember looking at a tree once and seeing the dendritic pattern and thinking if the whole thing were visible it’d probably look a lot like a neuron, then I read a bit about power laws but since I don’t know physics this video really summed it up for me pretty eloquently. Now I’ve just gotta know why different plants take on different leaf patterns!

    • @cryptidofthemarshes1680
      @cryptidofthemarshes1680 Місяць тому +5

      I have trees in my brain

    • @Dovahkiin0117
      @Dovahkiin0117 Місяць тому +2

      @@cryptidofthemarshes1680
      Brain is trees
      😂

    • @marcsh_dev
      @marcsh_dev Місяць тому +1

      My WAGuess is that when you look at something like how it competes against other plants/animals, and other details about how it takes in nutrients, from what heights its competeing to be optimal, and things like how much energy it takes to move the leaves, the answer will start to show up a bit.
      So, in those particular cases, its patterns are more optimal than other plants that its competing with

  • @geneseenelson36
    @geneseenelson36 Місяць тому +14

    I wrote my senior paper on fractals in nature. I love them!! It feels like you can find fractal dimensions everywhere, like country borders, lightning, and veins in leaves. They really the coolest thing possible.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Місяць тому +227

    That's why they call me "ol' Lightning Veins"

    • @ImaDogDude
      @ImaDogDude Місяць тому +14

      Same here, accept its because i have a rare blood condition where my vessels burn internally. People say it looks like i got struck by lightning when it flares up 🤣😂😂😂😂
      All jokes btw lmao

    • @targuscinco
      @targuscinco Місяць тому +5

      People call me a schmuck. 😢

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Місяць тому +3

      Some people call me Maurice.

    • @ImaDogDude
      @ImaDogDude Місяць тому +6

      @@TitularHeroine Cause you speak of the pompatus of love?

    • @rtbeerzi
      @rtbeerzi Місяць тому +2

      what

  • @T1cksandLeeches
    @T1cksandLeeches Місяць тому +10

    1:18 Stared at the same tree for 4 hours pondering every imaginable question possible after a handful of psily mushrooms....so yeah I would say I have lol

  • @thebrainy
    @thebrainy Місяць тому +35

    Next Video idea:
    Why some fruits,nuts and vegetables have similarities with our body organs, and eating them help the same organ they look like.👀

  • @karenmorgan4613
    @karenmorgan4613 29 днів тому +12

    What an amazing Creator we have!

  • @robschn
    @robschn Місяць тому +26

    Love that you concluded with the word “systems”. My friend is in data analytics and he calls these “non-linear dynamic systems” and they show up absolutely everywhere there are healthy systems

  • @iamthethis
    @iamthethis Місяць тому +12

    Fractals are the natural method of energetic sophistication in the Universe, and they all serve the same purpose and rule:
    To expose itself through contrast, as without contrast, there is no progression.

    • @NeovanGoth
      @NeovanGoth Місяць тому

      I mean, yes, energy gradients are the source of all things happening in the universe, but what the hell is "fractals are the natural method of energetic sophistication in the universe" supposed to mean?

    • @iamthethis
      @iamthethis 29 днів тому +1

      @@NeovanGoth Fractals could be considered one of the most basic languages in the Universe, like binary code, it can infinity articulate itself on the micro and macro level in order to communicate information.

  • @goldensunrayspone
    @goldensunrayspone Місяць тому +43

    space filling fractals are really useful in nature

  • @abstract5249
    @abstract5249 Місяць тому +6

    Today I learned there are dimensions in between whole number dimensions. I also learned that what we call "trees" can sometimes be more related to other plants that we don't call trees. Finally, I learned that you can increase the surface area of a shape by making fractals of that shape.
    Thanks for the lesson!

  • @grasshoppergeography
    @grasshoppergeography Місяць тому +4

    Finally a video we can use when people compare our river basin maps to blood vessels or a cabbage :) Great work, and thanks for featuring our work!

  • @YT-jg3kz
    @YT-jg3kz Місяць тому +9

    I remember my math professor went into a side rant about this on the whiteboard and left the whole class confused.

    • @marcsh_dev
      @marcsh_dev Місяць тому +1

      Thats unfortunate. Sounds like if they couldve done it with a bit more prep, that it wouldve made for a very interesting lecture.
      Its always great when peoples interests match what theyre teaching

  • @TheOicyu812
    @TheOicyu812 Місяць тому +4

    PBS / Nova - Fractals: (Hunting the Hidden Dimension) ua-cam.com/video/qABFYiYqXSU/v-deo.html

  • @philosophusbellator
    @philosophusbellator Місяць тому +14

    This has always fascinated me. Thank you for expanding and clarifying it! It took me a couple seconds to get the Mandelbrot middle initial joke, but yeah, I laughed.

  • @raduciobanu4592
    @raduciobanu4592 Місяць тому +7

    I have been looking for this answer my whole life.

  • @josepheridu3322
    @josepheridu3322 Місяць тому +3

    Fractals are so efficient and yet humans still prefer grids and squares :(

  • @joymaphanga1786
    @joymaphanga1786 Місяць тому +36

    The Awe of Gods creation 🙌🏽❤️

  • @MercedesCruz-qe1nj
    @MercedesCruz-qe1nj 29 днів тому +2

    I do not understand the mathematical facts about fractals, but I have always been fascinated by their beauty. Trees, rivers, the human body. We are all reflections of each other.

  • @KwakWack
    @KwakWack Місяць тому +5

    Honestly I think this channel is by far my favorite science channel on UA-cam

  • @packajenyou
    @packajenyou Місяць тому +5

    Awe❤ When I was little I called broccoli "Baby Trees"

  • @tonestar_
    @tonestar_ Місяць тому +6

    As a game developer, paying attention to this is how im able to create more realistic looking landscapes.

    • @marcsh_dev
      @marcsh_dev Місяць тому

      With landscapes, when reality breaks away from self similarity is also super interesting. Kenton Musgrave talked about that in Texturing and Modelling (I believe it was)
      Then of course, mixing the 2 to get really great stuff is so much fun.

    • @NeovanGoth
      @NeovanGoth Місяць тому +1

      Wait until you discover Perlin noise. ;)

    • @warriorofthelord4142
      @warriorofthelord4142 18 днів тому

      We are indeed made in His image

  • @dorolicious
    @dorolicious 4 дні тому

    What I find fascinating is that no tree is exactly the same, but still look familiar, because they grow the same type of fractals. No matter how different every single tree is, we still see what kind of tree it is. Simple but amazing.

  • @TitularHeroine
    @TitularHeroine Місяць тому +10

    Okay so that joke is actually really good. 😂😂 Took me a minute....
    I've been left with more questions -- and that's so cool. Thank you, Joe!

  • @catherinethomas3130
    @catherinethomas3130 Місяць тому +9

    Joe, I love your videos. You make the info so entertaining. Thanks you for that.

  • @ryanpowell4338
    @ryanpowell4338 Місяць тому +3

    They should mention how fractals are a large part of the psychedelic experience and are produced by nature. The trips often come with a sense of not being confined by our three dimensions and have been displayed in art around the world for ages

  • @ItsG07
    @ItsG07 9 днів тому

    I’ve been waiting far too long to feel validated in my obsession with fractal patterns. Thank you

  • @JackieChandler69
    @JackieChandler69 Місяць тому +21

    Love the aspen tree reference.

  • @danbarbier
    @danbarbier Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for your video! I met fractals in an event of the UBA in Buenos Aires. 5 People explaines their work investigating practical uses of fractals. Came out amazed. I have never forgotten that sensation.

  • @Scarlett767j66
    @Scarlett767j66 Місяць тому +5

    I saw this really cool fractal while making a blended coffee running down the side of the cup. It was running like perfect branches/ snowflake style going down on the cup. Looked so COOL

  • @joyl7842
    @joyl7842 Місяць тому +2

    What fascinates me is that the big tree in my parents' backyard survived a lightning strike but only half of it did. The other half is clearly dead and it is a split right down the middle. It isn't obvious from looking at it that lightning did it, but I was watching the storm from my bedroom when the lightning strike hit. It shook my windows it was so loud. How does a tree survive that amount of energy?
    And related, why do people get those fractal-shapes when receiving strong electric shocks?

  • @decoy3540
    @decoy3540 Місяць тому +3

    I saw somehwere that trees roots don't actually grow like what most people have been lead to believe, they grow a lot more horizontal than vertical

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof Місяць тому +4

      I think that is very dependent on the species. Some are evolved to create a shallow communal "root mat", but some depend on "tap roots" to dig deep for water.

  • @nicolerogowski2688
    @nicolerogowski2688 Місяць тому +2

    I'm a bioinformatician using fractals specifically to study viral evolution. Fractals are a really interesting way to study genetic information because by representing the information as a fractal - somehow you include information about the DNA sequence's physical structure! It's really exciting to work on it since little is understood, but I'll be doing my best to push my field forward! So that statement about "no gene causing fractal growth" might still turn out to be false!

  • @HawthorneHillNaturePreserve
    @HawthorneHillNaturePreserve Місяць тому +8

    I’m surprised you didn’t spend more time discussing the mathematics behind fractals to include the golden number and spirals. Also, I think it’s false physics doesn’t play a part in these designs because everything is influenced by gravity, and the laws of physics and nature that help dictate the design of our existence based on our needs to survive. Things like evolution, time, and the need for efficiency as you said, play major roles as well. P.S. Love your work 🙏

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada Місяць тому +2

      there are no laws of physics. just observed regularities, which can only be understood as regular by comparing them to something else regular. Which is a fallacy and collapses in the face of induction

    • @andrew5744
      @andrew5744 Місяць тому +1

      @@Purwapada something defines our universe. Physics exist. and our understanding of it is relative. That is all. The physics of the universe is very real. Dont get carried away with 'nothing has any meaning' level philosophy ...

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada Місяць тому

      @@andrew5744 physics does not exist, it is the logical application of a conceptual framework. Based in the supposition that phenomena have a true existence.
      Why? Because, an existent is not born of an existent (because it already exists), an existent is not born of a non existent, a non existent does not come from an existent, and a non existent cannot come from an already non existent.
      As such there can be no arising of a true existent.

    • @andrew5744
      @andrew5744 Місяць тому

      @@Purwapada again ur getting carried away with philosophical mumbo jumbo. mathematics exist as if I have one of this and I have one of this, I now have 2. Mathematics exists in our universe. If I walk off a building on earth, I fall because of gravity. That is physics existing. Our gravity is a constant rate of acceleration pulling downwards which is why we walk on the ground. Consistent Forces act upon us. And We apply force to move. That is physics. Not in any way saying our physics are 100% correct. But physics and mathematics exists one way or another regardless of what philosophy u attempt to bring to the table. We presently live in this reality that has an existing system of math and physics.

    • @andrew5744
      @andrew5744 Місяць тому

      @@Purwapada one very philosophical person could of course say physics doesn’t exist, time doesn’t exist, math doesn’t exist, and plague everyone with unhelpful questions like well how do we know anything exists? But the fact of the matter is you exist. So you must acknowledge what you exist with currently. If you want to say u don’t exist. Be my guest. Don’t go around talking it’s fact tho. Kinda like genders. U wanna identify as something. Go for it. Think what u want, but don’t push that bs depressing mindset upon others who can acknowledge we live in this reality, whether or not it’s a dream and we’re in a coma or we’re a simulation, we are here… so how could u sanely try to implement that as the norm upon others. U say “physics doesn’t exist” like it’s fact. No, that’s your philosophical rabbit hole. Like the piers Morgan clip where the dude is telling Morgan that he is a cisgendered male when no, the world doesn’t run off of your individual phrases you’re attempting to make up, Morgan identifies as a male period which was his point. We all have our own interpretations of reality. And I, as well as many others can appreciate this vast system of math and science that dictates our universe. To say physics doesn’t exist is to do deny said “framework.” Yes physics and time and math are man made concepts to understand the framework. If we didn’t call time anything. Time still ticks and goes on. But we do have our way of understanding said framework by calling it time. So time does exist. To an alien civilization they could call this framework we call time zoobadoobah. And zoobadoobah would exist because it’s their way of understanding and describing the existing framework. The “framework” exists and thus our way of interpretation which is physics, time, math exists, whatever argument u wanna get into.
      This is like a caveman argument. It’s like oh, well friction with this wood and oxygen creates this warm bright source that emerges and that potential exists regardless of if they had words for it or not when cavemen discovered what we know as fire. But obviously to advance as humans, they did create words for it in their native languages. “Man make fire” so they call it fire. Thus Fire exists. And man also exists. You’re literally arguing about concepts not existing when concepts are just describing what exists. Cuz even if fire wasn’t called fire. What we know as fire still exists.

  • @Fireheart318
    @Fireheart318 Місяць тому +67

    Wanna know something freaky? Your hands are fractals. Each of your fingers is just a tiny arm where the outermost knuckle is a wrist, the middle an elbow, and the innermost a shoulder

    • @ekitorfreire
      @ekitorfreire Місяць тому +13

      I can’t unsee it now…

    • @vibrationalcurrency
      @vibrationalcurrency Місяць тому

      Oh man

    • @NightmareCourtPictures
      @NightmareCourtPictures Місяць тому +1

      Mind blown.

    • @ekitorfreire
      @ekitorfreire Місяць тому +6

      it made me think that the human body itself looks like a weird stylized hand too, like a biped like seastar

    • @NeovanGoth
      @NeovanGoth Місяць тому

      That scene in Ghost und the Shell where tiny mechanical fingers come out of a hacker's fingers. :D

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis Місяць тому +2

    Aww dang, I’d been chatting to Matt Parker about doing a collab on this exact topic. Awesome job!

  • @zon6939
    @zon6939 Місяць тому +2

    I need a “I ❤️ fractals” shirt

  • @kyle333halfevil
    @kyle333halfevil Місяць тому +3

    Your videos always leave me feeling inspired. Just wanted to say that.

  • @ivypanda3594
    @ivypanda3594 17 днів тому

    I love fractsls, drawing trees and seing them everywhere is beautiful

  • @uasserkamal2002
    @uasserkamal2002 Місяць тому +3

    A more than wonderful episode, but it must be pointed out that living and non-living systems do not have any free will, but rather natural fractal patterns are subject to physical laws and principles purely without any intention, and this is what drives us to understand the nature of...

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 Місяць тому

      This is true. You baiting?

    • @uasserkamal2002
      @uasserkamal2002 Місяць тому +1

      @@borttorbbq2556 what is the meaning of "baiting"?

    • @spoperty4940
      @spoperty4940 Місяць тому

      Emergence can explain free-will and intention, we can't explain emergence using only the scientific fact of uncontrollably(regardless of the deterministically vs. randomality of quantum mechanics)

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 Місяць тому

      @@uasserkamal2002 Basically, you say something you know will piss people to get people to reply. It kinda forces interactions. I do it often. In this case you're saying the quiet part.

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 Місяць тому

      @@spoperty4940 hmmm explain that to the experiments involving this. Your brain makes the decision even if "you" are thinking it over.

  • @victorpetrenko2736
    @victorpetrenko2736 Місяць тому +1

    Clear explanations what are fractals. THANK YOU !

  • @keller109
    @keller109 Місяць тому +7

    Everything is connected 🌳

  • @user-bh1fo2wg1g
    @user-bh1fo2wg1g 21 день тому +1

    Conversations are also like branches/ fractals, they branch off into unexpected directions

  • @GoldenSun3DS
    @GoldenSun3DS Місяць тому +32

    I miss when the channel was named "It's Okay To Be Smart". I dislike the simplification of names and app icons that's been trending.

    • @Moonsong227
      @Moonsong227 Місяць тому +6

      This and the clikcbaity titles on this one and related channels lately. I get its for the algorithm, but still.

    • @rebeccarakuza2845
      @rebeccarakuza2845 Місяць тому

      And the hello smart people...😢

  • @VoidHalo
    @VoidHalo Місяць тому +2

    I noticed in Google Maps, the distribution of small towns and the roads connecting them looks just like neurons.
    Especially in areas towns are 5 miles apart or so to allow people to walk between towns before cars. If you find a place without a lot of other clutter like forests, you can see it very clearly.

  • @mubarak-abdullah-8771
    @mubarak-abdullah-8771 20 днів тому +7

    You call them fractals...and i called it the Signature and evidences of the divine being

  • @PoffoBS
    @PoffoBS Місяць тому +2

    Anyone interested in fractal branching patterns and how they relate to flow systems might benefit from checking out the book Design In Nature by Adrian Bejan.

  • @thelifeofdavidq2613
    @thelifeofdavidq2613 21 день тому

    I wish this man was my science teacher back in hs. I’ve learned so much in a few minutes and was hooked on watching. Great job PBS 🎉

  • @enikyne
    @enikyne Місяць тому +12

    We have designer, a creator. God created everything as His masterpiece.

  • @lisanorwoodtreefarm
    @lisanorwoodtreefarm Місяць тому +1

    An episode on tree roots would be good! (They don't actually look like a mirror of the tree crown. They are pretty much in the top 3ish feet of soil and spread out like a plate. Even in "taproot" species)

  • @jer103
    @jer103 Місяць тому +4

    Have you ever heard: as above, so below? It just says that certain things mirror themselves.

  • @radiantmarshmallow2527
    @radiantmarshmallow2527 Місяць тому +1

    Those "rules" are the force of consciousness, a field of directions, like an instruction manual! It's so beautiful.

    • @NeovanGoth
      @NeovanGoth Місяць тому +1

      These words have no meaning.

  • @wildwitchwest
    @wildwitchwest Місяць тому +21

    life is a doctor who episode, that's why

  • @edikind3347
    @edikind3347 Місяць тому +1

    Transportation infrastructure also has fractal branching, from the smallest dirt roads across a farm to the largest highways across a continent.

  • @laurenpatricia411
    @laurenpatricia411 Місяць тому +17

    God is amazing.

  • @BillThedem
    @BillThedem Місяць тому +1

    Fun fact: trees root systems mostly don’t mirror the tree, instead they branch just a few feet down far shallower than we were all taught

  • @Ana_crusis
    @Ana_crusis Місяць тому +5

    The underground part of a tree doesn't look like the top part. They used to think it did but now they know the Roots spread out and remain relatively near the surface .

    • @BackYardScience2000
      @BackYardScience2000 Місяць тому +5

      Depends on the species. A lot of desert plants have roots systems that are way bigger than their part above the ground and vice versa for a lot of tropical species. But I agree, you can't generalize them as such, but that's exactly the same for your comment as well. 🙂

    • @genesises
      @genesises Місяць тому +2

      the point made isn't that they look identical - noone "used to think this". you'd be pretty special to believe there were branches and leaves identical, but underground - and maybe equally special to make this into some kind of argument lol.
      the point is that the fractal pattern is the same.

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis Місяць тому

      @@BackYardScience2000 well yes but, obviously, here he is referring to averagw trees in fairly 'normal' temperate environments. The kind of trees you see around your house when you go outside. I don't think he is referring to any exotic desert growing plants.

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis Місяць тому

      ​@@genesiseswww.yourleaf.org/blog/brenna-anstett/sep-18-2014/mythbusters-getting-root-it

  • @zacharydefeciani7890
    @zacharydefeciani7890 Місяць тому +2

    Once I got really high and said "trees are reverse lightning" and I've thought about it every day since

  • @Angiepookiebear
    @Angiepookiebear Місяць тому +3

    God is good ❤

  • @Usrnet
    @Usrnet Місяць тому +1

    My brain is fractured now.

  • @M_Speaks
    @M_Speaks 18 днів тому +7

    Fun fact God created everything..

  • @dany_fg
    @dany_fg Місяць тому +2

    5:54
    It was probably easier to evolve that pattern (grow, split repeat) that to have gigantic leaves and branches (if a herbivore eats it's base you have to regrow the hole thing).

  • @cosalidra759
    @cosalidra759 Місяць тому +1

    The world will be a better place when the top trending YT videos everywhere will be premium science videos like this one. ( Also when scientists are mainstream celebrities ; not actors, not influencers )

  • @71tamas
    @71tamas Місяць тому +2

    Awesome vid! Fractals could be found in man-made architectures - road network, telecom network, social network etc.

  • @Shrevaba
    @Shrevaba 17 днів тому

    I looked just in time to catch the neature walk reference. how neat!

  • @ChristianJiang
    @ChristianJiang Місяць тому +2

    Now that i think of it, we are kinda fractal-like too… Torso → arms → fingers…

  • @trungduongduong1424
    @trungduongduong1424 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you! Now I sleep while seeing fractals haunting my dreams because of my ceilings.

  • @gdechandanatha
    @gdechandanatha 22 дні тому

    i love it when nature min-max things with geometry like with hexagons and fractals

  • @absolvt_
    @absolvt_ 23 дні тому

    We need more fractal studies. Fractal operations hold the key to a new way of energy development

  • @HERO-gh9xf
    @HERO-gh9xf Місяць тому +1

    Has always, I always think this topic won’t interest me and then I’m hooked for an another episode

  • @seanbeukman9563
    @seanbeukman9563 Місяць тому

    I truly cannot believe that your video is titled like this. I taught a class of drawing to my students. We were drawing plants and I mentioned how similar blood vessels look to branches. Then this week I looked at the trees here in winter and thought abt how amazing it is. Seeing as trees are like lungs. Now I see this video. Its not the algorythm for once. Radical coincidence. Tx.

  • @FigmentHF
    @FigmentHF Місяць тому +2

    I think we should be more explicit in saying that “trees” don’t exist as some ontological category independent of us. Rather reality has loads of shapes, and we can draw a circle around those shapes and call them things. Trees exist in the same way that “24 year old women called Maria who own two cats” “exist”. It’s just a category.
    I know this is obvious to most, but a lot of people think berries and mammals and colours “exist” independently of our generative world model

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof Місяць тому +1

      i keep telling people "Just because people create boxes, it doesn't mean things have to fit in them."

  • @plzletmebefrank
    @plzletmebefrank Місяць тому +1

    ... One thing. Tree roots do NOT look like that. The roots are much wider and not very deep. Also a different structure to the above ground part if the tree.
    Andrew the Arborist has a quick video on what tree roots actually look like to understand further.

  • @mahakhalil1
    @mahakhalil1 Місяць тому +1

    I bet you weren't thinking of Bonsai when you made this video, but boy is it relevant!

  • @daveenadams588
    @daveenadams588 18 днів тому

    I seen fractals when I was on magic mushrooms, it looked like vibrating strings of light (search up the “Paisley” Pattern) on a bandana. When I looked closely at grass- every single blade of grass was growing into this ‘energetic pattern.

  • @justalittlebawn
    @justalittlebawn 4 дні тому

    Roots of the tree are actually a lot flatter and wider with certain roots that go down to groundwater, they are not shaped like the top of the tree

  • @isrark3
    @isrark3 Місяць тому +1

    You forgot to mention laniakea supercluster. The universe is structured similarly

  • @tommy_truesk8
    @tommy_truesk8 Місяць тому +1

    as a neuroscientist I often think about the resemblance of brain cells to trees

  • @kevinhardy8997
    @kevinhardy8997 5 днів тому

    As I understand fractals, they are a solution to an equation which maximizes water transport with a minimum of building materials

  • @TomFooleryTheAustere
    @TomFooleryTheAustere 14 днів тому

    I’ve heard of the phone listening to conversations so suggestions can coincide, but I was only wondering about this in my head this morning. How TF did my phone read my mind?!

  • @bradleyroissetter6796
    @bradleyroissetter6796 Місяць тому +2

    Amazing video. Wish you mentioned human greated ones. Like the electoral grid or mainly the road system. Going from motorway to main road to street road. I use this to great effect in city building games

  • @LambdaCreates
    @LambdaCreates Місяць тому +2

    NEW BE SMART VIDEO DROPPED THIS BOUTTA BE FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @DrewNorthup
    @DrewNorthup Місяць тому +1

    Merry Fracmass

  • @conloon1077
    @conloon1077 Місяць тому +1

    WAKE UP BABE ANOTHER HIGH QUALITY FRACTAL VIDEO JUST DROPPED

  • @JustinSteele-gd5nu
    @JustinSteele-gd5nu Місяць тому +1

    It's scary, but even the key element to life, DNA