{"id":159812,"date":"2023-03-08T09:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/down-in-the-fractal-depths-of-quantum-matter-and-space-time"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:23:43","slug":"down-in-the-fractal-depths-of-quantum-matter-and-space-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/down-in-the-fractal-depths-of-quantum-matter-and-space-time","title":{"rendered":"Down in the fractal depths of quantum matter and space-time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/down-in-the-fractal-depths-of-quantum-matter-and-space-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The smooth space-time fabric of reality seems to break down at very small scales, and become a fractal with infinite depth. New physics, with intriguing implications for metaphysics and theology, could be hidden in those fractal depths.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PD2XgQOyCCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Smooth (continuous and differentiable) curves and surfaces become locally flat if you zoom-in deep enough. But fractals are always rough at all scales, and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PD2XgQOyCCk\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">you can zoom-in a fractal forever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his seminal book \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Fractal_Geometry_of_Nature\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"\">The Fractal Geometry of Nature<\/em><\/a>,\u201d <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beno%C3%AEt_Mandelbrot\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Beno\u00eet Mandelbrot<\/a> mentioned \u201ca new fractal wrinkle to the presentation of quantum mechanics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smooth space-time fabric of reality seems to break down at very small scales, and become a fractal with infinite depth. New physics, with intriguing implications for metaphysics and theology, could be hidden in those fractal depths. Smooth (continuous and differentiable) curves and surfaces become locally flat if you zoom-in deep enough. But fractals are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}