Fractals Connect Everything from Your Heartbeat to the Cosmos

Send us Fan Mail The world is trying to tell us something. It's speaking a mathematical language that appears everywhere—in our bodies, in our art, in the way financial markets rise and fall, in the branching of trees and rivers. This language even shows up in our heartbeats and brain patterns. The language is fractals, and understanding it might be the key to decoding the underlying patterns of reality itself. Most of us were taught that geometry is about clean lines, perfect circles, and ne...