Discovery of Cosmic Fractals

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World Scientific, 2002 - 373 páginas
This is the first book to present the fascinating new results on the largest fractal structures in the universe. It guides the reader, in a simple way, to the frontiers of astronomy, explaining how fractals appear in cosmic physics, from our solar system to the megafractals in deep space. It also offers a personal view of the history of the idea of self-similarity and of cosmological principles, from Plato's ideal architecture of the heavens to Mandelbrot's fractals in the modern physical cosmos. In addition, this invaluable book presents the great fractal debate in astronomy (after Luciano Pietronero's first fractal analysis of the galaxy universe), which illustrates how new concepts and deeper observations reveal unexpected aspects of Nature.

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The gate into cosmic order
21
2
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10
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6
47
protofractals
53
The mysterious singularity
151
Dark matter the grey eminence
171
Dark energy the new emperor
183
Expansion and curvature of space
193
from dream to science
215
The charm of selfsimilarity
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planets stardust dark haloes247
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9
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The new world of relativity and quantum forces
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The law of redshift in the kingdom of galaxies
109
The triumph of uniformity in cosmology
129
Redshift the quiet cosmographer
269
21
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Fractal structure of the galaxy universe
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105
325
The Origins of Megafractals
329
Appendix A
359
The classical electron and gravitational radiuses
360
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