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To: snarks_when_bored

I enjoyed Richard Feynman, myself, he wrote so the lay person could comprehend it.

Leaving aside the subject of Quantum Mechanics, I enjoyed also, reading and learning a bit, about fractals.

Fractals are amazing, and when one Journal said that they were studying oatmeal, and didn't elucidate on the oatmeal, I was sort of P'Oed, until, when eating oatmeal the next morning, I intentionally examined the oats and discovered that each oat had the little branch, like a tree, which had a smaller branch and then from that, a smaller, identical branch....


23 posted on 09/14/2006 11:07:11 PM PDT by onyx eyes ( .....they found a live-seemingly, Bacteria type, in rocks. Recently.)
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mark for later..


26 posted on 09/14/2006 11:15:47 PM PDT by D-fendr
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To: onyx eyes
...I intentionally examined the oats and discovered that each oat had the little branch, like a tree, which had a smaller branch and then from that, a smaller, identical branch....

...which for some reason reminds me of this bit of de Morgan doggerel:

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

27 posted on 09/14/2006 11:16:43 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: onyx eyes
"But what's between the branches?"

"Nothing. It's branches, all the way down."

44 posted on 09/15/2006 2:33:18 AM PDT by Erasmus (It takes branes to make an alternate universe!)
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