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Originally Posted by CraigS
Because fractals are the hallmark of chaotic processes. There is overwhelming evidence of fractals remaining from those processes.
The old idea of the purity of a single deterministic equation describing complex physical processes resulting in the structures evident in our universe is, and always was, a pure pipe-dream.
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But that's precisely what they expect to do with chaos and fractals. Develop a broad, overriding equation that through its application can define any natural (or unnatural) system you care to apply it to. That's what self similarity is all about. Scale invariance. Which means it applies in all cases. If a single deterministic equation is a pipe dream, then so it is such with chaos as well.