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Originally Posted by Vibecrewangel
Kelly -
I was reffering to a subplot of the movie.
Max has inate ability to see everything in the world mathmatically.
There is a scene where he is looking at the trees and sees them as a fractal.
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Indeed. According to my interpretation, not only did he see the whole world mathematically, he thought that even the future was predestined occording to a mathetical model and could be fortold. Not really a new concept really. Isaac Newton thought he could do the same using calculus and classical physics. That works well for certain fields of physics such as astrology but not so well in certain micro-fields such an fluid dynamics and subatomic theory where chaos theory reigns supreme. Perhaps there will someday be a reconciliation of the two, such as String Theory, that will serve as an adequate mathematical model of nature in the future. Until then ...