fractal, Higgs, Laniakea and intelligent design

[dholliday]

This thread is musing that reality is intelligently-designed after all - disclaimer: not relating this to any of the religions on our planet Earth, nor their deity - just a personal observation that what we know so far of our reality is that is too beautifully-organised a system to not have been designed.


Reality is fractal, and its all held together by an invisible meshfield, its existence proven by the recent confirmation that Higgs' Boson is really a thing. The recent re-modelling of our place in the universe seems to support a consistent design of reality.

It's not random chaos, it looks like intelligent design (the scientific definition, rather than the agenda-driven pseudo-science).


The red dot is our Milky Way galaxy, which may house over 100 billion stars, of which our Sun is one. The white structure is an inter-connected cosmic supercluster of an estimated 100,000 galaxies:

This supercluster is one of untold millions out there.

Our supercluster is in a (relatively!) local region of space, sitting snugly in between other superclusters, which are all being seemingly sucked into a magnet-type area known as The Great Attractor (you might have seen it referenced in science fiction).




While the Attractor remains an utter mystery, fractals we know about. It means the further outward or inward you observe, the more similar the structure of observable matter looks like.

Laniakea brings to mind the Cern particle smashes:

But you may also be reminded of brain synapses diagrams, or simply tree branches.

The inward limit we've reached so far looks like this (hydrogen atom, sub-atomic particles and double-helix DNA):

We may keep going down that rabbit hole until we perhaps come out of the other side looking at a million-strong mass of galactic superclusters (or an atom, if going the other way).

 

[scratchnsurf]

Who took that photo of the universe and where were they standing?

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Who took that photo of the universe and where were they standing?

Looking over Prof. Brian Cox' shoulder.

 

[jaspercabbage]

I still can't beleive we sold Laniakea after he scored 40 goals in a season.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

How much for the pair?

 

[madkiwi]

I love me a good Lorenz Attractor.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

All a bit mental isn't it? I'm not sure it's evidence of a 'designer' in the sense that they actually created what we see today though. If you think of it like an evolutionary algorithm. Someone designed the system and gave it some rules, but they didn't create what emerged within it.

 

[roydo]

Too early in the morning for this.

So I disagree. I think.

*awaits RAWK type ban*

 

[chicoazul]

God 1-0 Science. Sound as the atheists and agnostics have been becoming as tedious as the religious fundamentalists.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

We should just bundle all of this into the "stuff we'll never fully understand and don't bleeding need to" category.

 

[Pat's Van]

ancient astronauts lads, the egyptians knew it, the aztecs knew it, ridley scott knows it too

 

[Bruce Wayne]

God 1-0 Science. Sound as the atheists and agnostics have been becoming as tedious as the religious fundamentalists.

Whilst it's possible that there was someone/thing that created the universe, I think it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that it was a god in the sense that any of the religions today describe 'him'.

 

[chicoazul]

Whilst it's possible that there was someone/thing that created the universe, I think it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that it was a god in the sense that any of the religions today describe 'him'.

But a God nonetheless. That should pipe the non believer tips down a little. Well sufficiently until their glorious leader Dawkins tells them what to hate next. The dull monkeys.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

But a God nonetheless. That should pipe the non believer tips down a little. Well sufficiently until their glorious leader Dawkins tells them what to hate next. The dull monkeys.

Depends how you define god I suppose, and to be honest, this is all a hypothesis, just as anything else is. I'd say it's possible that something created the universe with its big bang, but I wouldn't like to place a bet on it.

With anything in life, and certainly with religion I would have thought, it's no bad thing at all to be quite willing and prepared to think you could be wrong. It's when you're certain you're right that things tend to get messy.

 

[chicoazul]

With anything in life, and certainly with religion I would have thought, it's no bad thing at all to be quite willing and prepared to think you could be wrong. It's when you're certain you're right that things tend to get messy.

Absolutely 100% sir. Both religious lids and agnostic bores could do with having a little space in their heads for what the other side is believing and just leaving others be. As no one really knows.