The question resonates with me Mark... often ponder about the beauty of
fractals and particularly the scalability... often sttttrrruggle with gravity "the force"

as the dominant explanation for the largest scale of what our eyes see "the twist", when it
(gravity) doesn't even get to sit on the bench and "cut the oranges" for the team
(of forces) at lower scales.... probably something for another thread... but resonates with the "whys of nature" direction of your question and how
EM participates in fractals and the useful technology
recently developed (fractal antenna) from exploring this natural phenomena....
I sense a disturbance... natural philosophy is meeting maths here...
take the points, cmon over
I'm enjoying both your posts and discussions SJ & nesti... a credit to this forum.