3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems (Quanta Magazine)

[0Encrypted0]

3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems | Quanta Magazine

I do not really understand but it might be interesting to some.

[youhn]

Scanning the text, it seems a description of the Mandelbrot set and the 3D shape for it, but written in a fancy way. It feels a bit as the search for the holy grail, when reading this paragraph:

"She and Lindsey have evidence of the existence of a 3-D shape, and evidence of some of that shape’s properties, but no ability yet to see the shape. They are in a position similar to that of astronomers who detect an unexplained stellar wobble that hints at the existence of an exoplanet: The astronomers know there has to be something else out there and they can estimate its mass. Yet the object itself remains just out of view."

And also the conclusion sounds not that rigid/stable/defined:

"“I would even characterize it as being sort of playful at this stage,” McMullen said, adding, “In a way that’s how some of the best mathematical research proceeds — you don’t know what something is going to be good for, but it seems to be a feature of the mathematical landscape.”"

[0Encrypted0]

This turns out to be a duplicate thread.
Already posted as Quanta Magazine: 3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems by kram1032