The local and the global happenings are intricately intertwined in the cosmos
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Cosmic design and the fractal construction of the universe

There exists a design behind the apparently complex and incomprehensible network of the filaments as the foundation of structures in the universe. Though the entanglements and weaving of filaments and knots may appear extremely complex, and impossible to comprehend, once one is able to discover the cosmic design, then things may appear, in a way, simpler. The building of larger and larger cosmic structures follow a hierarchical growth of the same design at higher and higher scales. Every design embeds a smaller design in its womb, which in turn embeds an even smaller design in its womb and so on. It carries on in the same way in hierarchically ascending, or descending scales.

By knowing the design one can build the universe by starting from the tinniest scale. It is like an ornament made by weaving strings in a complex manner. It is such a magical ornament that the whole ornament is made of smaller replicas of itself which form its different parts. Those smaller ornaments are again formed of similar ornaments of even smaller dimensions. The strings at different scales are made of denser, or lighter material. In the scale of the super-clusters, the strings are studded with galaxies. In the case of stars the strings are made of nebulous filamentary gases. The larger the dimension the average mass density of the material, forming the strings, become lower.

At whatever dimension one looks at the ornament, similar fluctuations can be seen. One can imagine it like an ornament studded with gems, which are woven together in the network of strings. The gems could be stars, or galaxies, or clusters of galaxies, depending on the size of the ornament one looks at. Whichever size one picks, the gems fluctuates, while matter from one gem stream moves to the other parts. Through a complex entanglement of strings a gem, which is getting dimmer at one place contribute in reinvigorating the intensities of the dimmer gems in other places. Thus dimming here cause glowing there. Everywhere one observes such fluctuating and pulsating gems. One’s decay is the cause of other’s growth and illumination. No happening inside the ornament can be disentangled from the global phenomena, where all growths and decays are parts of the same process of creation. This ornament in turn form only a local manifestation of the same ornament existing in a larger size. All local objects scintillate to create similar scintillating phenomena in the larger scale. While material stream from one part to the other, filaments, connecting the gems also grow and shrink depending on the process of give and take occurring between the gems.

However, in this ever fluctuating world, changing in a similar way at different scales, there exists something which never changes. This unchanging element constitutes the geometrical pattern, which the creator of the ornament has used in weaving the filaments and the strings together, and arranged the knots in that pattern. I have called this pattern the cosmic design, which I have first discovered at the heart of the nucleus of the Cartwheel galaxy.

 

The network of the fimalents form a cosmic design. The design is seen at the heart of the nucleus of the Cartwheel galaxy.
Self-similar structures are embedded in the design. The replicas in the smaller scales are set together to form the larger structure.
The small replicas which are set together to form the design are marked by darkred colors.
The design may be reduced to more fundamental parts. These different parts are shown in different colors. Highly complex braided strcutures define the gemometrical boundarries of these parts.
The cosmic design is made of a complex entanglement of knots and filaments.
Complex knotting of the filaments forming a geometrical element is shown. The geomterical design decides the directions of flows through the complex entaglement.  Though globally decided by the geometry the local streamlets split, merge, split and merge again and again and follow paths which may appear chaotic.
The complex entaglement of the flow paths through another geometrical element is shown.  The rpeated process of knot formation and decay generate fluctuations throughout the geometry.
The way the filaments are woven together to generate the cosmic design is shown. Though the flows fluctuate everywhere there exists a deterministic pattern in the average velocity of flow. However, when observed at high resolution, this complex pattern may generate the impression of chaos.

   

SEE the order behind chaos in a turbulence

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