troll hunter

well?

larry

I much prefer the idea that the entire universe is simply an elementary
particle in an uncomprehesibly bigger universe, which in turn is a particle
in an even bigger univere, and so on, infinitly up and down the 'ladder'.

Can really hurt your brain if you think about it too much though

Larry

chris taylor

"""Can really hurt your brain if you think about it too much though"""

My brain-cell hurts enough just thinking about this one.

jonathan silverlight

In message <cceagm$dq7$1@titan.btinternet.com>, troll hunter
<m.rizla@btinternet.com> writes

As in a Charlier cosmology ? (invented before the word fractal had been
coined, and before the universe was believed to be expanding)
AIUI, if the universe is expanding, any higher level is probably
unobservable, because it's moving away from us faster than light. Some
people think the part we can see is fractal.

peter

I remember Carl Sagan suggesting that in his TV series some years ago,
then saying there were solid reasons against it. I don't know what the
reasons were, or whether he amplified on them.

Nice idea though.

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Peter

thomas cuny

Particles are small parts of a fractal.
The universe is a malformed dynamic unstable fractal.

ed astle

Didn't someone recently solve Einsteins equations using imaginary numbers
and it, err, it caused some excitement for one reason or another (I really
cant remember the facts - probably a New Scientist snippet a few months
ago).

A decidedly fragile link I know (as Mandlebrot/Julia fractals are produced
using simple iterative calculations on imaginary numbers).

What I find intruiging about fractals is that they are not 1d or 2d but
somewhere inbetween. I have trouble with simple integer dimensions such as
the supposed 10 dimensional Universe (4 of space/time and 6 of Calabi Yau
space). I'll wait till I've understood this before I go fractional ;-)

Oddly enough I was thumbing through my old copy of "A Fractal Geometry of
Nature" only a few weeks ago.

Regards,
Ed.

fleetie

It's been a while since I read so much shit in one thread here
in this newsgroup.


Martin
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peter

Perhaps you could enlighten us mere mortals as to the true nature of
life, the universe and everything.

Thanks,

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Peter

martin frey

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