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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
by shakil 7y ago
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.
- kochikame 7y agoWhat if? It is.
- _wzsf 7y agoCentral 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).
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoSo everything that orbits an electron orbits that electron, but nothing else?
- flukus 7y agoElectrons 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.
- stkdump 7y agoFractals are not necessarily the same at different scales. They can be self-similar at different scales.
- meroes 7y agohttps://youtu.be/jhnKBKZvb_U?t=3516 https://youtu.be/jhnKBKZvb_U?t=3516