I’ve been trying to explain fractals to my wife. We’re compatible in almost every other way except for when I get too far out on the theoretical tip. Fractals are not something they asked about on the questionnaire when we signed up with that eHarmony promotional code.
The notion that smaller details in images are reflected in the bigger details and that there are mathematical formulas to express them makes sense to her, but how any of that relates to real life or to society just evades her. I told her last night “it’s very fractal of you to say that” and she threw a pillow at me.
That makes me laugh.