Wednesday 10 February 2010

Zooming Into A Fractal Bigger Than The Universe


After a trip of 10 minutes inside this Mandelbrot fractal (there's a video on the site), the original image you saw would be 'billions and billions' of times larger than the whole Universe. As the author explains:

The final magnification is e.214. Want some perspective? A magnification of e.12 would increase the size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit! e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe.

This zoom smashes all of them all away. If you were 'actually' travelling into the fractal your speed would be faster than the speed of light.'

3 comment(s):

OnlyAnEgg said...

e.42=the universe?
how clever is that?

Anonymous said...

Great link!

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