[ExI] Galaxy map hints at fractal universe

Jef Allbright jef at jefallbright.net
Thu Jun 26 01:36:30 UTC 2008


For some reason, my email client treated this as an offlist response:

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering what sort of interesting, non-optical but similar
>> statements can be (validly) constructed on an information theoretic
>> basis, instead of arguing the lack-of-a-wall. Something more juicy. But
>> not the typical strain of 'it just goes off to infinity' and leaving it
>> at that.
>
> I can't speak to their validity, but a quick search of arXiv reveals these:
>
> Stochastic Self-Similar and Fractal Universe
> <http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308370>
>
> Via Aristotle, Leibnitz and Mach to a Fractal D=2 Universe
> <http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609432>
>
> Power-law distributions for the areas of the basins of attraction on a
> potential energy landscape
> <http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509185>
>
> - Jef
>



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