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> Perhaps the fundamental description of the universe does not include the concepts of “mass” and “length,” implying that at its core, nature lacks a sense of s
by hcarvalhoalves 12y ago
> Perhaps the fundamental description of the universe does not include the concepts of “mass” and “length,” implying that at its core, nature lacks a sense of scale. This little-explored idea, known as scale symmetry, (...)
Isn't the word for that fractal?
- andrewflnr 12y agoAh, no, that's a completely different sense of scale invariance. In a fractal you still have to measure the sizes of different similar structures, and generally pay attention to length. It seems that this article is discussing a much deeper abandonment of length.