I linked to this on Twitter, where people enjoyed it. Don’t want folks who are still stuck in 2008 and only reading the blog to miss out. Abstruse Goose, click for legible original:
Tom Whyntie points out that the rabbit should really be more spherical.
Alright, I got most of it, but what’s the matrix pointing towards the plant. Quantum superposition of something?
Don’t be silly. If it were, it’d be a cow.
I think the alt-text is too negative! Those educated in science are lucky enough to be able to appreciate both pictures…
Simplicio, fractal I think
Looks like a matrix version of f=ma (the added terms would simply be additional forces)
I DONT GET IT o.O
I am also confused about the matrix by the fern.
It’s funny because there’s more than a little truth to it. Personally, I find the world all the more beautiful for it.
The matrix could be some 2D map which produces a self-similar orbit similar to a fern?
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Nice, but I can’t help but feel the biologists and geologists are being left out here…
The matrices by the fern are an iterated function system, a type of fractal famous for modelling fern-like geometry, among other things. One can find the same coefficients quoted in the wikipedia article.
I thought spectral synthesis of the hills was funnier. Leaving out the geologists indeed!
I got where most of the stuff is related to, but I’m not quite sure where the schroedinger equation is applied.
erik – everywhere of course! š
Iām not quite sure where the schroedinger equation is applied.
If you did, the cat would have to kill you.
Scientists see the world as a bunch of simplified (to varying degrees) models of independent components with little to no interactions between them? Hmmmm….
It looks like the matrix by the fern is a recipe for self-similarity.
It’s funny ’cause it’s true!
Barnsley’s fern.
is the mistake in schrodinger’s equation deliberately designed to bait people that can’t help pointing those kind of things out š
Reiterating Jonathan at #10: would it have been too much to include some protein synthesis from DNA/RNA sequencing??
@15: Well, you could have “the way string theorists view the world” and just erase all that stuff and put a loop š
this is a serious topic … seeing parts, and feeling apart from, hugely damaging in the long run
Abstruse Goose is God.
False. I only see Maxwell’s equations in covariant form.