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Cosmic Fractals

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It is a wondrous feature of the cosmos, how ideas repeat themselves at vastly different scales: As planets and stars move in grand systems about their orbits, so the electrons move about a nucleus. So too the same pattern is found within the microcosm of the human being—and at every scale of every thing, from every frame of reference.

At each level there is a wholeness and a oneness, and yet each breaks down into yet more minute particles creating yet another realm of wholeness—and we have yet to find its end.

A perfect harmony of oneness from which comes an infinitude of beings. The artist has left His signature within His masterpiece, and His imprint within each and every detail.

Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.
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October 29, 2008
Fractals
I wonder if it's a coincidence that last night on PBS there was a show about Benoit Mandelbrot and Fractals ? The Rebbe knew science was not in opposition to Torah but another way of illumination.
Anonymous
vernon, Ct. USA
October 28, 2008
Infinite
"...and we have yet to find its end."

I don't believe there is an "end". As G-d is infinite so is His "masterpiece."
Over the last years we have seen cells to atoms to genes to DNA. I believe that we will see soon, if we can't already, the "parts" that make up our DNA...and after that we will see what those parts are made of...I don't think we will ever see the end because He is infinite...
Georgia Salmon
Eureka, CA
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