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caeli  ·  3414 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you have creative theories about existence, space and time?

Strange attractors?

(Although they're different because the line never crosses itself)





Isherwood  ·  3414 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know this, do you have any more information on it?

caeli  ·  3414 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sadly I don't remember much about them, but the Wikipedia article on attractors is actually pretty nice. Seems like attractors are just some set of numbers for which a system tends toward. Maybe the fixed-point attractor is a better descriptor of your original idea: the system tends toward one fixed point and oscillates around it chaotically. I first read about attractors in high school in the book Chaos by James Gleick, which is a fantastic book I highly recommend for this sort of stuff.

user-inactivated  ·  3414 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's the first book on chaos theory I read as well. Awesome read.