More Fractal Geometry/Chaos Theory

[David Casseres]

Joaquin Stick (or is it D. Alfred Fledermaus?) sez
>I think something is wrong with your word-processor. I keep trying to read
>the messages in this thread and all that I see are a bunch of xs, ys and
>zs that are mingled in with what looks like machine language code. 
>...
>I wish there was some way to translate this thread into somewhat more
>comprehenible terms for those of us who find the concepts of such stuff
>interesting but who break out in hives at the mere mention of asymptotes
>and logarithms (hell, I always thought they were the beats that natives
>made on tree trunks in _Heart of Darkness_). 

Well, your experience is rather like that of a poor but honest technogeek 
who stumbles into a vast bramble of postmodernist literary criticism -- 
something that happens around here from time to time.  Would it be a good 
idea to translate it into mathematic symbols?

Personally I think this sort of thing is good for the nervous system; 
taken with care, it can either broaden one's education or induce a 
healthy intellectual humility.  I leave you with a pleasing aphorism from 
Richard P. Feynman's _Lectures on Pysics_:

     "Do not laugh at notations; invent them, they are powerful."




Cheers,
David