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I had been looking at some of the various graphical representations of chaos theory, namely the mandelbrot set, that I have hanging around in my apartment. After looking at some of these images, somehow my mind made a spontaneous comparison visually between these graphical representations and the appearances of explosions. I was amazed how very similar the two kinds of images appear. compare the image of a zoomed -in part of the mandelbrot set on this website: "http://www.joachim-reichel.de/images/mandelbrot_large.png" with this image of a trinity atomic blast: "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Trinity_explosion.jpg".
Notice some similarities...subtle though they may be? notice especially patterns near the ground level of the trinity test.
My thoughts then carried me to that famous experiment done in the 60's by a couple of guys in New Jersey (my memory doens't serve so well right now), in which subtle background static was omnipresent, and possessed similar characteristics. These guys concluded that this static was a result of an electromagnetic echo of the big bang...which is observable amongst white noise on your TV.
I then remembered how the strange attractors of chaos theory were likewise ubiquitous and possessing similar patternings. This led me to believe that perhaps these strange attractors were also echoes of the big bang. And possibly, with those graphical representations of chaos theory, a person was actually seeing a graphical representation of the big bang itself, therefore.
The thought came to me that in the universe there is only cause and effect. With the primordial explosion of the big bang, you have a starting point for charting these causes and effects. From then to now, what you have is a long chain in this sequence of cause to effect. The initial cause sets forth in motion all future events or effects. And so, just as it is possible to accurately predict the characteristics of a given section of the mandelbrot set at a given zoom, so too may it be possible to predict events in this universe, with a similar mathematical precision...because perhaps the big bang did set the initial patternings for the cosmic stuff through its chaos patterns, and echoes of the big bang do reinforce these patternings up to the present, and indeed the world around us is a direct manifestation of the big bang and its strange attractor patterns.
So, there may be something to those people who believe that various apparently unpredictable events are in fact predictable, through employment of chaos theory's patterns.
