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Article #273Re: Fractal Universe
From: Hassink Brian John
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:40
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:40
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stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes: >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. >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. Well, the earth would have to be equidistant from the sun and other nearby stars for this to be true. And if this were the case, all sorts of frightful things would happen to us :)
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Newsgroups: sci.fractals Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!alberta!hassink From: hassink@cs.UAlberta.CA (Hassink Brian John) Subject: Re: Fractal Universe Message-ID: <hassink.725064011@manning> Sender: news@cs.UAlberta.CA (News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: manning.cs.ualberta.ca Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada References: <1992Dec18.175134.1@venus.iteb.serpukhov.su> <1992Dec21.163511.7862@unocal.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:40:11 GMT Lines: 18