Wow! First Ever Fractal Molecule Discovered Inside Bacteria...And It Works!

[@zeropolicy7456]

Uh oh. That Bacteria is about to get a cease and desist letter from Nintendo's legal team for copyright infringement. Lmao.

[@KaraKobold]

was about to say something about this, but ill upvote instead =p

[@Lady8D]

🏆

[@FawkesNewsUSA]

if anything this means we can use the shit out of it because it is a naturally forming pattern

[@sal2975]

😂

[@yong9613]

I think those wonderful people who publish the papers with that nomaclature will get legal letters first

[@ghoxon8312]

I watch your channel regularly. Not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that you would ever cover one of my papers. Love your work!

[@Napoleonic_S]

This is your study? What will be done after this discovery?

[@illegal_space_alien]

It's like the realization from musicians that Weird Al covered their song. That's how you know you've truly made it.

[@oscareriksson9414]

Cool discovery!🎉

[@smellystinker4837]

​@@illegal_space_alien 🤓 actually.... weird Al always asks for permissions before doing a parody xx

[@EsonIndustries]

@@smellystinker4837 Then its like the realization from musicians that when Wierd Al asks permission to cover their song, thats how you know you've truly made it.

[@Jvk1166z]

the fact that bacteria can triforce is WILD ▲ ▲ ▲

[@vincentvoillot6365]

Bacteria holding the molecule above it self : "You obtain the fractal molecule, you can now fractalize"

[@skaughtii]

Holy shit this brought me back wtffffff 😂😂😂

[@juanyz5351]

The legend of Synechococcus Elongatus

[@ToneyCrimson]

▲ ▲ ▲

[@ToneyCrimson]

Oh no i messed it up...i guess im a newf......i will stop before people get mad.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I’m a geologist and fractals are dominant in many geologic features. That’s why geologist’s photos always have something like a pen, notebook, person or car, etc., in them for scale, a little tiny fault can otherwise look the same as one 500 feet tall, for example.

[@hah-vj7hc]

I've always had this thought that macro and micro are essentially similar and kind of a matter of perspective. I've started thinking about it when I learned that electrons revolve around the nucleus just like our Earth around the sun and the sun around the Milky Way etc.

[@justdenisecurtains]

​@@hah-vj7hcmore like how the Sun/Proton and Moon/Electron move around earth as we observe them the same size and the planets/wandering stars also make geometric patterns with the path they make around the geocentric contained universe with water above the firmament/electronagentic toris field. *Hence why the sky is blue :) (7D, not flatearther)

[@SomeRandomAustralian]

⁠​⁠@@justdenisecurtainsif you have time, would you care to elaborate on 7D? I’ve seen torus / toris field and firmament a few years back so you’ve buzzed some old neutrons in my brain and now I’m curious lol.

[@justdenisecurtains]

@@SomeRandomAustralian we have 7 layers to our skin, 7 visible celestial bodies, 7 chakras and there are 7 seals/spirits of God, 7 colours in rainbow, western music scale etc etc. Making it seem like there are 7 layers to our reality.

[@SomeRandomAustralian]

@@justdenisecurtains I’m more of a 42 kinda guy but I see where your coming from. Outside of correlation, were there any points of information that really sold you on the concept?

[@Khyrid]

Power, Wisdom, Courage

[@stevenhoule1866]

Where is Link when we need him

[@justinanderson267]

Last I heard he was hosting a boxercise event called Hiyah Hyrule

[@nornalhumsn7167]

It's a secret to everybody

[@caneyebus]

It IS the Link

[@ganon144]

Hes ... uh... gone sorry

[@zodammit]

Apparently the Princess got kidnapped by Ganon....again. And this is just rumor but some chambermaids say she and 'Dorfie' text alot.

[@dryfrog]

Thanks! Long overdue. Beautiful pics tonight and great narration

[@athar_adv]

Imagine donating 50 dollars but having absolutely no replies after 3 weeks, I'll be the first one to say thank you for donating to one of my favorite creators :D

[@dar540]

Yeah a good cut of it goes to KZbin too unfortunately

[@ZeiLuis-n8i]

​@@dar540😂

[@Zeratul3598]

🤟

[@ZeiLuis-n8i]

Still no answer 😂😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kjnoah]

This is important as we are very close to using biology to build geometric structures at a molecular level, meaning we could grow filters, transistors and molecular scaffolds for stem cells.

[@Distress.]

Imagine your computer catching a virus

[@skivvy3565]

I think there’s already a PC build that uses mycelium and fungi colonies as parts on the cob for it... video up here on yt somewheres

[@Suiseisexy]

Surveillance devices that report your real time sensory output to the authorities, immortality for rich people only, paper thin armor that can be applied to anything and makes everything so terrorism proof the current political hierarchy will potentially reign forever, right up until someone invents a munition with indestructible penetrators so small and so powerful they penetrate this armor and turn the human being beneath into a cloud of dust and juices that both intermixes and boils such that it turns into a substance the boys in R&D have been calling "slurm".

[@jeffery9543]

@@Distress.Yeah. Imagine that. How crazy.

[@Random-xw3qc]

​@@Distress. Well you can't transmit a common cold over the internet so the only way for a computer to catch a biological virus would be if you had one. (Or friends, family, pets, or wherever you use your computer)

[@danielvermeer3363]

Anton should be at 1.8 billion subs. Such an undiscovered gem.

[@webmaristocrat4052]

Billions must learn

[@pablomoreira8227]

He may have lost a lot of those people with his terminator smile in the end of the video ^^

[@jklappenbach]

I think it's the tagline: "As always: 'bye-bye'" I might drop it, or come up with something that makes sense.

[@omegalamda3145]

So cool seeing your panoramic scanning abilities in action. From the macro to the micro, the reason why I donate to your site. Always a refreshing wake up call is one manner of expressing it. Thank

[@JamesSarantidis]

This video made my day. Currently I'm writing my thesis on modeling cities with fractals and I noticed that they appear in multiple and unexpected places. Whether they can serve biological functions or not, they are beautiful and I'm glad that the scientific community continues to study them. Wonderful shapes for wonderful intelligences in a wonderful world.

[@odapunkt]

Thats really interesting! I want an entire city made of fractals! But maybe that already exists🤔 what do you think?

[@mainalterego2506]

oh thats interesting! i have been explaining reaction diffusion and turing patterns by looking at european city growth..do you think these perspectives have synergies?

[@billable1861]

I think for space and cost it would theoretically maximize efficiency but in actual practice, I think it would be a nightmare. It’s would be like going to HOA housing block where all the houses are the same and you can’t even remember which house is your own from a glance. I think it would make your grubhub order about 10x longer lol

[@ovoj]

What/where are these multiple and unexpected places?

[@newolde1]

Yes, please explain more!

[@VeganWithAraygun]

If Saturn can have a hexagon, fractals in bacteria ought to be a cinch.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Hexagons are the bestagons! Saturn had taste.

[@TheAbysssarian]

​@JamesDavy2009 😋😋😋

[@adriangogioiu2611]

If you are talking about the weird storm on the saturn pole you are wrong... It have not a perfect hexagonal form and it have a perfectly reasonably explanation...

[@bugsy742]

⁠@@adriangogioiu2611I don’t think you have the brain capacity to understand the comment! 😮

[@chriswise7978]

What is the reason?​@@adriangogioiu2611

[@Harrock]

Mandelbrot would have lost his mind 😂😂😂 "I told ya ! I Told ya !!!"

[@carrieeloff2220]

❤

[@keirfarnum6811]

James Gleick too!

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

Maybe he's seen romanescu broccoli

[@siinxx7656]

That bacteria be living in the 2.5 dimension no cap

[@daveyjones8969]

Check out the z axis of the Mandelbrot Set...and get your minds blown.

[@EvidenceOfTheDivine]

Terrence Howard: "Show me a straight line in nature" Anton Petrov: "Hold my beer"

[@alon869]

Thanks!

[@kentjoosten8149]

Sierpinski is also a shape used for cell phone antennas. Maybe the bacteria use these as teenie weenie communication devices.

[@sCiphre]

Whoa whoa, you can't just say things like that, or biologists might start falling off of their chairs.

[@hm09235nd]

interesting point! reinforces the imagined line between pathology and ‘daemonic’ interference. if bacteria etc in some sense have hive-like properties or propagate information in the ether as if a super organism. fascinating.

[@MrMartinSchou]

Is this the dreaded 5G infections they're talking about?

[@zodammit]

@@hm09235nd complex life did evolve as mobile chassis for bacteria to get around

[@abundance_In_Motion]

Interesting

[@John-wm6fg]

Every Time I Watch One of Antwon’s Wonderful Videos I Always Think is There Anything That He Has Not Studied About or Been in constant Awe of ? I think he is a Truly Gifted young man and Has a Never-ending Thirst of Learning !!!! We are Lucky to have him !!!

[@RaynMao]

this comment could be an isekai anime title

[@yong9613]

​@@RaynMaoAnton is one isekai MC with OP teaching research and informing powers, it's over 9000!!!

[@Kahtah]

Thank you, Anton, for providing us with some positive news in our lives. Sure is neat times we live in.

[@jamesprosser4261]

Once again, another great vid. Got to share this with my mate, it's right up his street. Congrats on the nearly 1.3 million subscribers. Keep it up you legend. Cheers Anton..

[@Qwerty-g1b2o]

It's up his street? Your mate lives inside a cyanobacteria?

[@tf2juice]

Them bacteria boutta play an ocarina 💀

[@emrakultheaeonstorn7430]

And put on a mask!

[@tf2juice]

@@emrakultheaeonstorn7430 they gon get them hyrule clout

[@Sirmenonottwo]

It definitely feels significant because of how it is perfect.

[@redtrek2153]

It's way more reasonable to assume that this is just for slightly more efficient packing and unpacking of surplus enzymes for better control over metabolism.

[@prophetzarquon]

It's an extremely durable structure with nearly maximal surface area; with fewer internal cavities, it would probably miss out on significant RF \ particulate interaction...

[@breakingthewall2112]

Because fractals and the golden ratio are the building blocks of the universe

[@festerbutt]

It would be a hexagon or a circle for efficiency, not a triangle.

[@macchiato_1881]

​@@festerbutthexagons are composed of triangles I hope you realize that

[@funnelvortex7722]

The comments section on this video includes: 60% Zelda references 35% New Agers talking woo 5% Other comments

[@kevink1575]

Everyone loves fractals!

[@richardoldfield6714]

Ah yes, the obligatory reference to 'woo' when anything crops up that suggests a possible contradiction of the culturally pre-determined dogmatism of the philosophical physicalism of scientism (as distinct from genuine science). But real science is more open-minded and open-ended, with no need to adopt defensive postures.

[@Skylancer727]

​@richardoldfield6714 No that's incorrect. Science is not an open minded process, science is the process of taking a definitive fact and using observation for understanding. Throwing theories at the window isn't science. Science is the not the process of just imagining ideas, it's the process of study and examination. Something like MOND or string theory is science purely because each explain things were currently don't understand, even if both are likely wrong. Your explanation has to at least be logical on the surface.

[@richardoldfield6714]

@@Skylancer727Incorrect. Science *is* an open-minded process. It does not rule out things without strong evidence to do so ... and even then is open to the possibility of new, contrary evidence emerging later. What genuine science does *not* do is describe as 'woo' anything which conflicts with philosophical physicalism, even if that that philosophy is mainstream within science currently.

[@user-gv4cx7vz8t]

You act like no aspect of the perennial wisdom has penetrated the sanctum of your cranium. Nearly all discovery is rediscovery. How much of today is like previous days, and how much should you unlearn to be as smart as your ancestors?

[@shubashuba9209]

One reason why a fractal forms in nature is to create a structure with the greatest surface area while minimizing the amount of material used. So there are very practical applications for fractals in nature.

[@lindenstromberg6859]

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: Bacteria of the Wild

[@marknovak6498]

Just because other shapes do work does not mean that there is no reason for it. We just have not found the reason yet.

[@CockMcBallsddd]

Yea its insane to think there is no reason for it. Nature doesn't waste a lot of effort, especially on something so complex. . .for NO reason. Its silly.

[@magne7771]

The reason is _It's friggin' RAD_

[@toymaker3474]

the bottom line reason is 1.618 aka the divine ratio

[@Lady8D]

Agreed! Not knowing the reason does not necessarily mean there isn't a good reason. Just in case anyone missed it/cares: Anton also said that a couple times, one of em is at 8:50 😊 🫶

[@realityisenough]

??? Why would you talk about other BORING shapes at a time like this. Fun at parties you

[@xXturbo86Xx]

No accidents. No coincidences.All by design.All with a purpose and function. Perfection all aound us and within us. A lot we don't know. A lot we have forgotten.

[@jeremyhares979]

By design ? I hope that’s not a religious reference.

[@i_accept_all_cookies]

Fractals can perform information compression, so perhaps that's why they arise. I'd like to know if there's any evidence for gravitational or temporal fractals.

[@KeelanJon]

Another amazing and clear demonstration of the accidental and yet beautiful formations of sheer mathematics and our universe in action.

[@siraaron4462]

3:35 you can see it only links first-order Sierpinski triangles (triforces) together which aren't really fractals as they don't recur within themselves.

[@heythatmonkeyhasaspoon2636]

I remember the first time I watched a documentary on the Mandelbrot Set and for weeks afterward everywhere and everything I saw in nature was just fractals and it really freaked me out. It was like i could see the matrix... I was just looking at trees and seeing a formula and it freaked me out.

[@leoalex2001]

are you sure it wasn't LSD 😂

[@_4200h]

yeh when i was learning vectors it was the same

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Yeah they're really everywhere.

[@J.Green-Rx]

Grow weed for a while, and you'll see many plants and trees start resembling buds. Their shapes, I mean. Not kidding, but that shit is funny cause it's such a stoner thing. Huh, now I'm wondering if that's fractals lol.

[@nicodesmidt4034]

Hope you returned to reality a bit 😂

[@philippegohier6992]

Life is fractal Time is fractal Universe is fractal .

[@theendoftheline]

phrases that arent true often end in the word... fractal

[@sabinrawr]

You're fractal.

[@philippegohier6992]

@@theendoftheline stop living in the dark age . Time is not linear past present futur Universe look like a brain Trees ,blood vessels are clearly fractal

[@philippegohier6992]

@@sabinrawr yes look my blood vessels and nerve system. Fractal

[@vincent21212]

Spirit finds a way - science is only but a tiny whisp of Spirit

[@neochris2]

Triforce fractal... Wow

[@markrockliff2742]

Yer interesting idea, Tri force fractal. It had me thinking about the inner triangle and the helix and the symbol of the Absolute found in the Enneagram model representative of the synergetic properties of The Nine Energies.

[@marial3231]

Gosh darn what the heck is a triforce fractal????

[@hilohahoma4107]

Goodone Anton, you do know about Nassim Harameins work don't you. From his years of research it appears that the foundational geometric structure of all matter is "tetrahedrons", basically four sided triangular pyramidal structures.

[@waving_at_clouds]

Oh this is so cool, serpinski gaskets in yeast! I knew that fractals are everywhere, but to find such flagrant evidence that they pop up in such fundamental life forms is rather overwhelming; Beautiful, simply beautiful!

[@feralouca3869]

Humans use that structure to build mobile phone antennas... Maybe bacterias have been doing the same for millenia XD

[@MNbenMN]

Beware the bacteria revolution. They've been monitoring our radio transmissions! /s

[@tinman18004]

It's the same shape as a micro receiver chip!!! Look up the video DNA is a fractal antenna 📡

[@SBImNotWritingMyNameHere]

I CAN FEEL THE 5G IN MY TUBERCULOSIS RIDDLED LUNGS AUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHH

[@davevasquez5010]

Something something, "phone home", something something.

[@tehbonehead]

Cashing in on that free 5G energy!

[@TruthOfZ0]

Think of QR codes....so a Fractal is a 2.01-2.99 dimension of a long enzyme to be folded to occupy less 3d space ...fractal folding helps a lot since its like origami paper folding from Japan

[@symbolsarenotreality4595]

fractals contain the whole within the part, a non linear function, like a hologram

[@sirknz]

That feel when bacteria can triforce and I can't...

[@JoeyY7]

😂came here to say this

[@Urll_Bunyon]

Yet...

[@DioDCynic]

That bacteria's adn is older and more ancient than yours. Did you get that? .YES .NO

[@user-gv4cx7vz8t]

​@@DioDCynicUm, you mean DNA? Did I miss a joke?

[@prophetzarquon]

How am I just now discovering that I don't need leading zeros anymore...?

[@endlessdesert3122]

Thank you again Anton!

[@Tucker_Tries]

I am excited to see when you cover exotic vacuum objects (Ken Shoulders, Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project, John Hutchison, Coherent Matterwave Beams patent Lockheed, Dr Judy Wood, etc)

[@Atok595]

I drained the toilet water in my trailer and the gas made me hallucinate these fractals. Warning: don’t drain raw sewage without a proper assmask .

[@Jordan__Sloan]

Assmask?

[@luridcodex]

That last sentence quoted out of context may be the greatest typo in human history.

[@amygodward4472]

What the hell...

[@deathtech]

Jenkem

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Don't freebase fumes, especially not through your ass 💀

[@luiztosk]

no way, if this was any other channel I wouldn't believe. Pretty amazing!

[@roblink4781]

The fractals brought on by DMT are amazing

[@siinxx7656]

That guy from Gem & Jam of All Gas no Breaks, the one that smoked G funk with the homeless down the bridge be loosing his damn mind when he sees this

[@WizardoftheGhost]

Amazing that were still discovering new things about Cyanobaacteria. Its nice to ponder that this wasnt some kind of happy accident and we just dont grasp the dynamics at work here.

[@sbcap3809]

Thank you Anton, for years now you have provided the equivalent of University grade material for millions of people. Much more than could be said for the majority of highly paid, egotistical folks whose sole purpose is their own self aggrandizement and accolades from their “peers”. You exhibit the true definition of what I believe is a teacher, the ability to clearly express an area of interest well enough, to spark the will for the student to find out more. Quite the opposite of what teachers think they should be doing, if what is being brought forth from the University today, is any indication!

[@mr.pritchard67]

There is no coincidence. We just haven't figured out what it means yet. Fractals are so cool!

[@gweebara]

I have discovered that these tiny little fractals make me happy

[@summerbrooks9922]

Looking or gazing upon the art self assembly of Fractals seems magical and peaceful.

[@mdb1239]

Thanks Anton. Incredibly interesting!

[@leonorcrepaldi4589]

Excellent! Thank you so much for sharing it! 🙏🏼🌷

[@robertl.arbogast8189]

Bravo, Anton. This is astounding and really interesting! Thank you

[@DUBEE43]

Looks like the ANDROMEDA STRAIN

[@king_dot]

Great book

[@DUBEE43]

@@king_dot Indeed

[@sunspot42]

My first thought as well.

[@allankolenovsky7028]

Ya, this is really creepy! I watched the original movie many years ago and as a Biologist it gave me nightmares. It still does to this day. It was an incredibly accurate representation of how we do our work (minus the overkill on the sanitization of the human body).

[@Jon6429]

@@allankolenovsky7028 Have you seen the movie "Warning Sign" from 1984? The lab accident at the beginning is a hoot

[@dmeemd7787]

It’s like putting spherical magnets together in that pattern. This is very very cool !!

[@MrHackclan]

I can tell how the ancients knew... magic mushrooms. Seeing fractals in one of the biggest common phenomena when consuming psychedelics. There is definitley a deeper meaning to it.

[@Broken_robot1986]

Yeah fractalization of everything you look at is so much fun.

[@drnothot]

Not a bad point, I wasn’t thinking of it like that but I agree

[@richardhall5489]

I've seen fractals as eyelid movies during a gong bath / sound healing. No drugs required. I also astral travelled on a meditation retreat so I'm probably atypical.

[@Splozy]

@@richardhall5489 do you want to buy a bridge?

[@richardhall5489]

@@Splozy 🤔

[@jackanderson9122]

Remarkable! And this fractal is not going unnoticed! Thank you wonderful person!

[@Abrin32]

Some kind of botanist weighing in here. Yeast are not closely related to cyanobacteria. Hate to nit pick but a closer example of a cyanobacterium might be a straight up chloroplast inside of a eukaryotic plant cell. For context Yeast are Eukaryotes, they're so large you could engineer them to have cyanobacterium inside of them and doing that you would have re-created bluegreen algae.

[@Z8Q8]

40 yrs. ago, i noticed that the white designs found only on OVERO Pinto/Paint Horses are fractal patterns also... God's an Artist!

[@gregreilly7328]

Fractals are common in crystalline structures. If you consider salts or sugars, fractals wouldn't be surprising.

[@ultrastarrz6620]

Right, and with how quickly bacteria evolve I'm not surprised we're first seeing fractalling in them

[@antoniopannuti2088]

1) it’s not a fractal. It just assembles into a particular shape 2) it’s difficult to assess fitness value of a particular sequence in the lab. The challenges and stressors encountered in the natural environment are difficult to predict

[@jairo8746]

Exactly, this is basically a crystal.

[@Alderak1]

@@jairo8746No it isn’t. If crystal structure was all that was needed to explain this then it would just be a solid triangle, but this one has spaces in it. It does display a sort of “fractal” structure in a way. The base structure is 3 molecules forming a triangle. 3 of these base triangles attach at the ends and form a larger triangle that has a space in the middle, a space that appears to be 1 molecule in size. This 2nd larger triangle can be tripled to then also form a 3rd larger triangle with much more space in the middle (this space seems to be 6 molecules in size). If it was just an isotropic crystal, the large triangle that is pictured would have 36 molecules, but instead it has 27. That being said, repeating crystal structures can be very complicated (such as in the case of micas), so what if the base structure of the crystal is actually the 2nd triangle? That still makes it so the final triangle has 30 molecules instead of 36. Based on my limited knowledge of chemical bonds it appears as though the ends of the large triangle would still be wanting of some sort of bond to balance them, so perhaps this pattern can continue indefinitely. Given the limited information that can be gleaned from the images, there is a sort of fractal nature to this that can’t be explained by simply citing crystals, but there are only 3 iterations of this “fractal”, so there’s nothing here to say that this pattern continues besides the above assumption.

[@dmytryk7887]

You say "it just assembles"...but that leads to the question "why?". Is there some possible explanation rather than saying "it just does it"? Maybe not, but many fractals can be seen as an attracting structure of a simple dynamical system. In particular, the Sierpinski triangle is the attractor of a dynamical system consisting of (1) shrinking in size by a factor of 1/2 and (2) three appropriate displacements in space. It might not be the case but it seems at least possible that the triangular shape might give some insight into the "forces" that create that particular shape.

[@antoniopannuti2088]

@@dmytryk7887 protein complexes can assemble in a lot of shapes. By the way, an entire organism is build up essentially because of proteins being expressed and assembled according to space and time coordinates. To create a brain is no small feat.

[@A_Stereotypical_Heretic]

You don't know what the definition of fractal is do you?​@@antoniopannuti2088

[@jounik]

One of the key features producing mathematical fractals like the Sierpinski triangle is the scale invariance of the forcing action on an otherwise random generator. That such a scale invariance would persist over at least three orders of magnitude like would be required here is very impressive indeed.

[@DerekDumas]

Since the beginning of time, that cell has build up to this. We have JUST found it. I'm going to side with "It has a purpose, but we have NO idea what that could be just yet." But I do know this about science. When you start trying to re create and synthesize things you don't understand. . . It ends poorly.

[@corod-1]

The fact you posted this on Apr 19th isn't lost on me and Albert Hofmann...

[@CockMcBallsddd]

L'Chaim!

[@danf7411]

🚲 day. I'm consuming no no 🍄 as I have no 📄

[@theCommentDevil]

Best day for a bike ride

[@JB52520]

Is everything coded references lately? I can't understand half the comments under this video.

[@user-gv4cx7vz8t]

​@@JB52520referencing accidental discovery of LSD-25, when cycling took on new dimensions.

[@to2burger]

This needs and deserves 50 million views! The people need to understand that it’s all code!

[@justdenisecurtains]

The code of Intelligent Design, just like how we see the golden ration Phi in fossils from history and all living things now. Debunking evolution!

[@FrostSpike]

It's more like a crystal than a true fractal. A fractal provides the same level of detail not matter what the "zoom factor". This cluster of proteins doesn't do that.

[@pattygreen8064]

a crystal is a great example of a fractal....

[@PostModernTruth]

It's a simple fractal, triangles within triangles (potentially within triangles etc. etc.)

[@6ixpool]

There can be no true fractals in the physical world. The Universe as we know it is discrete, not continuous. So the hard limit to the smallest scale geometry can physically exist is the Planck length.

[@B..B.]

The problem is basically our zoom machines though

[@PostModernTruth]

@@6ixpool Anton does also mention that these structures are likely formed by imperfections which causes them to be shaped around the void, hence the fractal. Perhaps the cause of the shape doesn't lie in the physical world?

[@Tyler-2839]

Yay!!! 🎉 The Sierpinski triangle is my favorite shape! I have a mural of them above my bed and I draw them when I get bored 😄

[@pyritenightmare]

Perhaps an anti-bacteriophage technique? It doesn't appear to affect the bacteria's own metabolism, but maybe the clumping and needing to break up the protein distrupts viral activity or something like that.

[@farrier2708]

3:50 "We have no ides how the ancients new about this." Mmm! 🤔 The ancients may not have known the mathematics of fractals but they certainly had the artistic talent for pattern making.

[@wynnnnnnn5227]

People tend to forget ancient peoples were just as smart as we are, they just didn't have the knowledge and information we do.

[@leonardomarquesbellini]

​@@wynnnnnnn5227 Just as smart, but just as dumb too; intelligence correlates with access to knowledge and isn't exactly static, being developed with use. Modern people do have more access to information, so on average we should be more intelligent than people back then. Of course, that's on average.

[@user-gv4cx7vz8t]

@@leonardomarquesbellini"Intelligence correlates with access to knowledge" seems smug. Perhaps access to stimuli toward thinking, i.e., interesting data is a better metric. After all, so much of what we "know" is not true, and that doesn't make us more intelligent.

[@Sokofeather]

Knowledge is verified in its application for the solving of problems. The reason these fractals show up in ancient works is because you could build things with these patterns and they wouldn't fall down as you made them bigger

[@leonardomarquesbellini]

@@user-gv4cx7vz8t nothing smug about people now being more intelligent than people back then, and less intelligent than people will likely be in rhe future. It's just how things are, and how they should be.

[@jacksonliddiard4326]

Wisdom... Courage.. power..

[@OkieJammer2736]

😊 Exciting that we can see such teensy-weensyness!

[@wynnnnnnn5227]

There's this super cool method of scanning tiny stuff where they bounce a microscopic needle off of a sample a bunch of times, and then measure how it bounces on different parts. They can then use that data to make a visualization.

[@Zeus-sv6wi]

Thats what my girlfriend said after seeing my penis for the first time :(

[@IAmWithinEverything]

Love and Light to you and your family ❤

[@philipganchev2306]

Hey Anton, thanks for the fascinating videos! Where are you from originally?

[@младенец]

😀🤪

[@Heavilymoderated]

Once as a teenager I had an experience where I could see that the universe was largely built in the form of constantly changing fractals. Could see the patterns of the grass, the clouds, even the structure of the language from our brains into the air.

[@skehleben7699]

🍄🍄🍄

[@kalebwhite3210o]

That's called LSD buddy, it's not good for you. 😂

[@cralo2569]

DMT is very interesting.

[@Pixelkip]

@@kalebwhite3210oit’s not for everyone but it’s amazing

[@derflerp538]

I've had similar experiences with psilocybin. It's wonderfully humbling to be reminded from time to time just how interconnected all things really are.

[@Randi_Beirt]

That looks a lot like the micophotograph of the organism in "The Andromida Strain".

[@michaelstetson6890]

Didn't I see this in The Andromeda Strain?

[@prophetzarquon]

Everybody saying tri-force, but I'm thinking metroid

[@JustJacob-kt]

Love love love your videos Anton, keep it up!

[@RubelliteFae]

Stacking efficiency? Maybe the pieces can be used for other things and they build up a storage supply until its needed. Like production & consumption phases.

[@davenewmyer3735]

I understand that cell phone technology took a leap forward when fractal shaped antennas were implemented .

[@yong9613]

Something something efficiency?? 🤔

[@chrislaezur730]

Ahhh, my lungs under the microscope. Cool find, thanks for the news Anton. Black hole is also cool.

[@GeraldBlack1]

Shapes do love efficiency.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Hexagons are the bestagons for that very reason.

[@netizencapet]

Anton has been at the space & sci info biz for years. He's a champ in the field & only has 1.29 M. Sabine Hosenfelder is extremely tenacious, has often participated in high level international conferences, etc. & only has 1.27 M viewers. It is all to say that there's limited public interest in science & most folks would rather be lied to by MSM or be titillated with cats.

[@aaronschmidt9753]

That's a huge discovery. Would love to learn more about this.

[@captainconstitution4238]

Hey! Hey! Listen! That bacteria is the embodiment of power, courage, and wisdom. All hail the triforce bacteria, the last defense against Ganon!

[@TK-ui1vz]

The way this guys talks like the nice kid that knows all about insects in school

[@conorquinn607]

All cauliflowers are fractals apparently, not just romanesque

[@devalapar7878]

Some shapes appear very rarely in nature like rectangular angles, other shapes are very common like the tetrahedron in diamonds, the hexagon in graphit or the circle in our eyes. A sierpinski fractal in a bacteria is next level surprising. It's astonishing. I assume it's the misr efficient way to do its job.

[@RybackQast]

Each individuals in the group have 3 links to the others. Forming that patern✨

[@chillcucumber191]

Bacteria wouldn't speak about the molecule. So we had to triforce.

[@taxirob2248]

does anyone remember the film adaptation of The Andromeda Strain?

[@whereswaldo5740]

Yup. My dad was a science and health teacher. I remember going to the theater and seeing it on the big screen. I was just a kid but I had seen enough that when I saw that I knew it wasn’t like anything else I’d seen before. He had a really cool magnifying microscope that looked like a milkshake maker that projected onto a white piece of paper. You could trace or draw on it. But was was coolest was like pond water where things were alive and moving around. Some were quite lively. And I remember thinking I’m not taking water in my mouth to have spray battles anymore while swimming.

[@hessex1899]

Stephen Wolfram must be absolutely over the moon at this.

[@gnoelalexmay]

Rule 90! 🤘😎

[@KJUgrin]

It's almost as if something is trying to communicate with us, but we're too stupid to comprehend it.

[@shaneconnor5701]

Thanks Anton...excellent as always

[@meyou2696]

Have you made a video about the study of emotions and sound effects on plants and water?

[@R3l3ntl3sss]

Love that science is catching up with metaphysics

[@qed100]

Science isn't in the business of catching up with dead ends.

[@mmyr8ado.360]

​@@qed100 like psychology?

[@HM-rz8nv]

Science isn't about "Catching up" to whatever metaphysical or supernatural bullcrap you want to believe is true without evidence. It's a process of investigation and rigorous examination of the available evidence to form likely explanations and theories of events, not trying to conform to preheld mystical assumptions about reality like buffoons do.

[@chrismettie6009]

A fractal is just a set of simple rules repeated to infinity. You see the same from trees to plants to invertebrates it’s just a simple side of rules

[@JamesDavy2009]

Even the Mandelbrot set has a simple rule of iteration: Z ↔z² + C where "Z" of both cases are complex numbers.

[@christopheriman4921]

Well it depends, the most general definition of a fractal is "A geometric figure that appears irregular at all scales of length" which can apply to a lot more than a set of simple rules repeated to infinity, for instance a function that is continuous but not ever smoothly changing.

[@snowgorilla9789]

Andromeda Strain

[@kubaellonp]

The shape shown at 3:34 is actually not the famous Sierpiński Triangle. Sierpiński Triangle has filled areas and voids of different sizes arranged in a particular way, which for it to be a fractal, has to repeat infinitely in all scales. Instead we have a regular arrangement in a hexagonal grid, which repeats itself in two dimensions, but not in multiple scales, so it's not even a fractal arrangement in the first place. It's more like a usual crystal lattice, but in 2D. Somewhat like graphene, but in this case it's not single atoms arranged in a hexagonal grid, but much larger units built from whole enzyme proteins.

[@jessen00001]

Thank U wonderful Anton 🎉

[@johnhinkey5336]

Andromeda Strain? 😆

[@Opal1001]

Everything that exists is fractal. It's beautiful.

[@R3l3ntl3sss]

Correct! ❤

[@tylerchrist7436]

The Andromeda strain

[@Verrisin]

you described why it would make hex-comb pattern, not the fractal triangle pattern.

[@KerrieRedgate]

Fascinating, Anton! Equilateral triangles are actually important forms of perfected consciousness. As fractals, they have also been expressed in the ancient Hindu/Vedanta Tantric system as a “Yantra’. I’ll have more on this in a forthcoming book (hopefully ready in 2005).

[@serbianspaceforce6873]

do you mean 2025? you're a little late to a 2005 release date

[@KerrieRedgate]

@@serbianspaceforce6873 😄 Yes, actually!, and I was VERY late even then!! It was supposed to be out as a big fat book in the year 2,000, I even had a publisher interested, but life sometimes throws everything at us. But now I have more research up my sleeve, so maybe it will be OK. I’m probably still in a time-warp - where did the years go!!!

[@serbianspaceforce6873]

@@KerrieRedgate Yeah I get that. stuff happens. I wish you well though!

[@KerrieRedgate]

@@serbianspaceforce6873 Thank you! And thank you for the heads-up!