Fractals

We recently talked about fractals in class and I thought I'd share a brief example of one I made in my high school physics class. According to several online sources I found, the shapes on a CD when you microwave it are fractals. Here's a picture of one that my exchange student and I tried ourselves. It only takes about 5 seconds in the microwave and then the whole disk lights up with what looks like blue lightning forming the lines you see. Unfortunately I can't currently prove that it truly is a fractal, but as far as I can tell it didn't ruin my microwave so feel free to try it out for yourselves. The way things are headed now, CD's will be obsolete soon anyway.