Branching out
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- from Shaastra :: vol 05 issue 04 :: Apr 2026
The shared principles for blood, brain, lightning, and the cosmos.
Branches are everywhere: in the trees around us, where they are starkly evident when their leaves fall; in riverine deltas; in a bolt of lightning; in fractures on materials… We see branches everywhere, but we rarely think of the common principles in their formation.
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