The Fractal World Erosion River Basins River Flow

The Fractal Structure of the Universe

Bjrn Birnir
Center for Complex and Nonlinear Science Department of Mathematics UC Santa Barbara

The Discovery Center June 2011

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Most things made by nature are fractals

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Most things made by nature are fractals

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Fractal Nautilus Shell

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They come in beautiful self-similar shapes

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Real Snowakes

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Fractals Shorelines

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Fractal Shorelines and Fjords

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Our Man-made World Consists of Boxes

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We even tried to put the human body into a rectangle

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Most things made by nature are not rectangular or circular

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Leafs and Tree-branches are fractals

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Fractal lightnings and crystals

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Perhaps life itself has a fractal structure

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Erosion
How does the surface of the Earth evolve?

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River Valleys with Uplift

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Mountain Ranges are Fractals

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The Merging of the Rivulets

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The Cache la Poudre River Basin near Ft. Collins, CO

We all live in a river basin

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The Amazon River Basin

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Meanderings of the Mississippi

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A Drawing of an Eddy
Studies of Turbulence by Leonardo da Vinci

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