It's like gravity, collisions, and interstellar objects. Some starting points escape and go on ... forever.

Some kind of structure there that Collatz probing is sketching

Except the Collatz Conjecture is almost certainly true, and there are no starting points that go on forever. Or did I miss the point of the analogy?

	▲	keepamovin 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No you didn't misunderstand, I think. I thought there were some values that went on forever! edit: however we could consider the weaker definition of "forever", and consider there are some outliers that go on "for a long time" per post title, probing structure with these loops and spokes. :D