[g__day (Matthew)]

Fractals! Stunningly good article in Australian Scientist last week. Basically seeing evidence the Universe is structured up to 200 million light years, whereas our current models show there should be no structures above 30 million light years under the bg bang model. Whilst we new galaxies where fractal and shape, and even clusters, it should go up to super clusters - ket alone strings of them.

A fractal universe is elegant, laws if physics become scale invariant, relativity becomes scale relativity, spacetime becomes fractal in and of itself, meaning its inifinite in scale density, as any fractal is. So the spec of dust in your hand is infinite - when everything is a fractal.

Finally it is a simple way to unite relativity with quantum mechanics (particals simply move along fractal paths). But it tears down Einstein's view that on a large scale the universe is homegenous at all levels.

Very interesting article that should be testable by mid 2008 with the next itteration of the Sloan study.