New worlds of fractal weirdness
PONDERING the possible meanings of Clairol’s claim that its hair care product is “40 per cent more dimensional”, implying 4.2 dimensions in all, Feedback wondered whether the temporal extent of the dye might be fractal (3 October 2009). Now Charles Pell tells us that we are not the first to make our head hurt with this, and introduces us to a whole new world of weirdness.
He points us to the late Terence McKenna – best-known as a keen proponent of psychedelic drugs – who proposed the fractal evolution of history, an idea he…
