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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: Fractal Universe
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.163511.7862@unocal.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:35:11 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.175134.1@venus.iteb.serpukhov.su>
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- In article <1992Dec18.175134.1@venus.iteb.serpukhov.su> kolombet@venus.iteb.serpukhov.su writes:
- >Does anybody know somewhat about the term "Fractal Universe"?
- >I want to obtain references to sci. papers too.
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- It is in Mandelbrot's book on the Fractal Geometry of Nature.
- The clumping of galaxies appears to be fractal.
- It is also another way of resolving Olber's paradox that the night sky
- in a sufficiently old universe should be as bright as the surface of
- the Sun. Fractally distributed matter, infinite in space and time, would
- solve the paradox.
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