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Re:Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant ... by shakil on Thursday January 16, 2020 @06:41PM (#22070303)
We know many things in nature are fractals: coastlines, tree branches, blood vessels...

What if the Universe is one big fractal, repeating itself at different scales: electrons go around a nucleus, planets around a star, stars/galaxies around blackholes, and so on and so on, building larger and larger structures.

Re:Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant ... by flukus on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:26PM (#22071587)
Electrons don't rotate around the nucleus in the same way that planets go around stars, that's a simplification for high school text books. Supermassive black holes don't keep galaxies together either, galaxies rotate around themselves and even that isn't enough, hence dark matter.
Re:Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant ... by stkdump on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:55AM (#22072476)
Fractals are not necessarily the same at different scales. They can be self-similar at different scales.
Re:Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant ... by _wzsf on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:06PM (#22071202)
Central forces don't guarantee that the universe is made of fractals. Nothing, for instance, orbits an electron within an atom (excluding spin-orbit coupling and other such quantum nonsense).
Re:Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant ... by meroes on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:19AM (#22072851)
Re:Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant ... by kochikame on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:05PM (#22070484)
What if? It is.