. "it can be thought in an abstract way as though the closer the scene gets to the singularity, that time is slowing down to the observer of the scene"" . that is exactly what happens when you fall into a black hole (if I understand correctly). the "fallee" will never get to the singularity - he will grow old and die of natural causes or something. but someone outside the event horizon will see him get sucked in real fast. more to the point, the mandelbrot is mathematically connected everywhere (that is theoretically proven now) - even the tiniest minibrot is connected by a very thin fillament ultimately to the main body. so the 2 main bulbs must ultimately be connected at real=-0.75, imag=0. but you need to get to infinity to see it. if you zoom in and see a "bridge" and then up the iterations it again disappears. ad infinitum. maybe the oft hyped (soon to arrive?) quantum computer will be able to do it........... .