Macro and Micro and the Fractal
Updated 29th Nov 2012 There are many insights - in relation to macro/micro - that can be taken from the fractal. Firstly, and importantly, when viewing a fractal (in isolation) scale cannot be discerned, the object maybe any size at all, from infinity small to infinitly large; the object shares the fractal charactoristic of being 'same' but 'different' at every scale. The object's shape can be discerned, and from this, an attempt can be made to deduce an understanding of the process to produce it. The object is the 'same'; the examples are infinitely 'different'. Examples: income, wealth, trade, selection, reproduction, specialisation and so on. We see the same but different - at all scales. These principles repeat throughout the universe and are central to biology, chemistry, and physics. This observation sheds light on whether there is a distinction between micro and macro: the fractal shows us that there may be no real separation between th...