Determinism. Chaos (Fractal in nature), and what is randomness has been the subject os a number of threads. I found a number of recent references and recently published books on Deterministic Chaos. i will provide future references in concerning Deterministic Chaos and how natural order arises from the Quantum World. I will also discuss concepts of 'Order and Disorder' and Entropy concerning the nature of Energy from our physical existence to our everyday world.
In previous threads I have argued that randomness is not observed in the natural world. Some responded saying randomness is described in experiments as unknown variables. I believe that, yes. randomness is used to describe unknown variables, and in observations of some behavior in the Quantum world, but I believe this remains a human perspective of observed unknowns, and not actual random behavior in the natural world.
The references I have read describes nature as having an inherent math nature, and the order of nature found in math arises from a fractal underlying properties, and fractal properties arising from the Quantum world.
The following research describes an example of fractal order arising from the Quantum World in the behavior of electrons.
From: Physicists wrangled electrons into a quantum fractal
Physicists wrangled electrons into a quantum fractal
Electrons within the structure behave as if they live in a fractional number of dimensions
BY
EMILY CONOVER
11:00AM, NOVEMBER 12, 2018
ELECTRONS GO FRACTAL A fractal called a Sierpinski triangle (right) has been fashioned in the quantum realm (left), shown in an image indicating the density of electrons on the surface of copper.
S.N. KEMPKES ET AL/NATURE PHYSICS
Physicists have created an oddity known as a quantum fractal, a structure that could reveal new and strange types of electron behaviors.
Fractals are patterns that repeat themselves on different length scales: Zoom in and the structure looks the same as it does from afar. They’re common in the natural world. For instance, a cauliflower stalk looks like a miniature version of the full head. A lightning stroke splits into many branches, each of which has the same forked structure as the whole bolt.
But in the tiny quantum realm, fractals aren’t so easy to come by. Now scientists have artificially created a quantum fractal by placing carbon monoxide molecules on a copper surface. Confined between the molecules, electrons in the copper form a fractal shape of triangles within triangles called a Sierpinski triangle (SN Online: 12/30/02), the researchers report November 12 in Nature Physics. A full-fledged Sierpinski triangle would contain an infinite number of triangles, so the researchers created an approximation to that shape, with enough triangles for its repeating structure to be evident.
Electrons inhabiting a fractal don’t live in 3-D like the rest of us. Nor do they exist in a flat 2-D world or a one-dimensional line. Instead they occupy an in-between, fractional number of dimensions. In this case, the scientists found that the electrons lived in approximately the number of dimensions expected for a Sierpinski triangle, 1.58.
Quantum particles tend to act in unusual ways when confined to one or two dimensions (SN: 10/20/16, p.6). Scientists don’t yet know how electrons will behave in fractional dimensions, says physicist Cristiane Morais Smith of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. “What can come out of our work is completely uncharted territory.”
In previous threads I have argued that randomness is not observed in the natural world. Some responded saying randomness is described in experiments as unknown variables. I believe that, yes. randomness is used to describe unknown variables, and in observations of some behavior in the Quantum world, but I believe this remains a human perspective of observed unknowns, and not actual random behavior in the natural world.
The references I have read describes nature as having an inherent math nature, and the order of nature found in math arises from a fractal underlying properties, and fractal properties arising from the Quantum world.
The following research describes an example of fractal order arising from the Quantum World in the behavior of electrons.
From: Physicists wrangled electrons into a quantum fractal
Physicists wrangled electrons into a quantum fractal
Electrons within the structure behave as if they live in a fractional number of dimensions
BY
EMILY CONOVER
11:00AM, NOVEMBER 12, 2018
ELECTRONS GO FRACTAL A fractal called a Sierpinski triangle (right) has been fashioned in the quantum realm (left), shown in an image indicating the density of electrons on the surface of copper.
S.N. KEMPKES ET AL/NATURE PHYSICS
Physicists have created an oddity known as a quantum fractal, a structure that could reveal new and strange types of electron behaviors.
Fractals are patterns that repeat themselves on different length scales: Zoom in and the structure looks the same as it does from afar. They’re common in the natural world. For instance, a cauliflower stalk looks like a miniature version of the full head. A lightning stroke splits into many branches, each of which has the same forked structure as the whole bolt.
But in the tiny quantum realm, fractals aren’t so easy to come by. Now scientists have artificially created a quantum fractal by placing carbon monoxide molecules on a copper surface. Confined between the molecules, electrons in the copper form a fractal shape of triangles within triangles called a Sierpinski triangle (SN Online: 12/30/02), the researchers report November 12 in Nature Physics. A full-fledged Sierpinski triangle would contain an infinite number of triangles, so the researchers created an approximation to that shape, with enough triangles for its repeating structure to be evident.
Electrons inhabiting a fractal don’t live in 3-D like the rest of us. Nor do they exist in a flat 2-D world or a one-dimensional line. Instead they occupy an in-between, fractional number of dimensions. In this case, the scientists found that the electrons lived in approximately the number of dimensions expected for a Sierpinski triangle, 1.58.
Quantum particles tend to act in unusual ways when confined to one or two dimensions (SN: 10/20/16, p.6). Scientists don’t yet know how electrons will behave in fractional dimensions, says physicist Cristiane Morais Smith of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. “What can come out of our work is completely uncharted territory.”
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