I'm trying to understand how to apply fractal geometry to lung physiology so that we can model #COPD #Exacerbations. Apparently I read too much #Gleick and #Mandelbrot last week!

See, I think that exacerbations are examples of #Chaos where respiration is analogous to a pendulum powered by the diaphragm and lung elasticity applied to the fractal architecture of airways, arteries and the tensegrity structure that holds them all together but I have no idea how to apply the mathematics of chaos to this problem.

Also this is an excellent paper; https://academic.oup.com/ajrccm/article-abstract/187/4/342/8510034?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

…❛❛ James Gleick’s meditation on Time covers how time is experienced psychologically, how artists such as #Borges, #Proust, and #Wells create with it, how #religions conjure #eternity, how #cosmology probes forking #universes, and how so much comes down to the #nature of “now.”

Science historian #Gleick is the author of #Chaos (1987), #IsaacNewton (2003), #TheInformation (2011), and "Time Travel: A History" (2016) ❜❜…

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeBiai2G_TI 15 Jan 2020

#Time #Timelessness #TimeTravel

' “A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing,” wrote James #Gleick in his 1999 book Faster. Such compression characterized, as well, the preceding century. ”... information and communication technologies would have a particularly strong effect on our perception of time.. #speed with which we’re presented with new information and stimuli...our interactions with others.

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#NicolasCarr #JamesGleick #activityrhythm #workrhythm