FOTD -- June 29, 2008 (Rating 6)
Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
I'm not sure whether this borderline stuff is exactly on topic,
but fractals certainly hold higher-dimensions, so why not our
so-called 'real' world.
I recently claimed to have experienced precognitive dreams. But
this does not mean that I believe it is possible for Madam
Zucchini, who runs a fortune-telling shop down on the corner, to
know the future. If it were possible to do so, she would not
need to run such a questionable business. She would merely need
to buy a lottery ticket. She would know the winning number by
using her occult powers.
What such fortune-tellers do is known as cold reading, where
they fish information from their patrons by clever questioning.
It's a technique known to every aspiring magician, which in-
volves nothing more than a bit of everyday psychology and a bit
of good old common-sense. Spiritualist mediums run their busi-
nesses pretty much the same way.
But at the same time, I do not claim that it is impossible for
information about the future to get into the past. In the case
of my precognitive dreams I did not at any time *know* the
future. After the attack happened, I realized that information
from the future had somehow gone back into the past and in some
manner had affected my dreams.
But this in itself is incredible. It is even more paranormal
than so-called communication with spirits of the dead, where all
that would be needed would be for spirits of the dead to
actually exist and to be able to communicate with the living,
two perfectly intuitive, if not apparent, things.
By contrast, there appears to be no possible way for information
to now exist about an event that does not yet exist. In fact,
if such backwards causality were ever shown to be true, we would
need to adjust the entire philosophical foundation of science.
The only way out of the situation that I am aware of is to claim
that such intense precognitive dreams such as mine are one of
those extremely unlikely coincidences, which against all odds,
sometimes happen -- perhaps a one-in-a-googol chance.
In comparison with precognition, I am firmly convinced that
there are no space aliens visiting earth in their UFO space
ships. The distances involved are far too vast and worm holes
are unlikely in the extreme. Also, no clear pictures of UFO's
have ever been obtained even with the ever-increasing number of
video cameras and cell-phone cameras, which now are almost
everywhere. In my opinion, aliens in UFO's are an example of
suggestibility combined with wishful thinking.
Yet despite this disbelief of most 'borderline' things, I must
still face the fact that information somehow now exists about
events that do not yet exist, and this pre-information actually
can affect peoples' minds. If I do not accept an impossibly
unlikely coincidence, I must accept that the outer world has
hidden dimensions, (which physicists also claim), or the human
mind has hidden dimensions, (which occultists claim), or perhaps
both.
One thing for certain however, which can be demonstrated at
will, is that fractals have hidden dimensions. In fact, this
might be why I enjoy them so. Today's image is a perfect
example of a hidden dimension. Inside the parent fractal, which
appears as a Mandelbrot set, lies a whole hidden quintic world.
The image shows one of the quintic minibrots in the parent's
depths. It is located in the East Valley of the largest mini-
brot on the filament complex extending from the large period-3
north bud of its parent Mandelbrot set.
I rated the image at a 6. It's a little too mundane to be worth
more. I named it "Five Strikes and You're Out" when I recalled
what the Ednor Gardens Eagles used to yell at the umpire when we
thought he was too generous with the opposing batters.
The calculation time of 2-1/4 minutes is well within reason even
if getting information from the future is not. And as always,
the finished image is available on the FOTD web site at:
<
http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>
A muggy day here at Fractal Central on Saturday, with a tempera-
ture of 88F 31C, was climaxed by an exciting thunder-storm at
10pm, which dropped to temperature to 72F 22, making the fractal
cats as well as the local humans very comfortable for the night.
I totally avoided work during the day, which made both myself
and FL very happy. The next FOTD fractal will be posted in 24
hours. Until then, take care, and truth is elusive.
Jim Muth
jamth@???
jimmuth@???
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