randomness creating order

[miriam_e]

I just dug up and re-read the relevant part of the old article on "Fractal Growth". It turns out I misremembered. The article wasn't about dust settling to form dustbunnies. The dustbunnies were my idea. It was about something similar, but being attracted to a point, so that they form a branching structure out in all directions. The article was examining why the particles create a fractal, branching structure instead a formless blob. It is the randomness that causes the order. Nice paradox. We see this in a lot of fractal and chaotic shapes. It is randomness that generates order. And perversely, order can generate chaos. The world is stranger than people generally think.