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Nature abounds with periodic phenomena: from the motion of a swing to the oscillations of an atom, from the chirping of a grasshopper to the orbits of the heavenly bodies. And our terrestrial bodies, too, participate in this universal minuet — from the heart beat to the circadian rhythm and even longer cycles.
“O Julia, mir graut’s, wenn man bedenkt, an dünnen Fädchen nur dein Schicksal hängt. Dein body ist so thin und doch so schön, wann werde ich dich sweet heart wiederseh’n.”
Manfred Peschel
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Schroeder, M.R. (1986). Self-Similarity, Fractals, Deterministic Chaos and a New State of Matter. In: Number Theory in Science and Communication. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22246-1_30
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