Discovery of cosmic fractals
A presentation of results on the largest fractal structures in the universe. It explains 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.
Print Book, English, cop. 2002
World Scientific, River Edge (New Jersey), cop. 2002
xxxi, 373 p. : il. ; 24 cm
9789810248710, 9789810248727, 9810248717, 9810248725
913013541
Contents: The Science of Cosmic Order: The Birth of Cosmological Principles; The Gate into Cosmic Order; The Paradoxal Universe of Sir Isaac; The Dream of Hierarchical World: Protofractals; Cosmological Physics for the Realm of Galaxies: The New World of Relativity and Quantum Forces; Gravity - The Enigmatic Creator of Order; The Law of Redshift in the Kingdom of Galaxies; The Triumph of Uniformity in Cosmology; The Elusive Simplicity of Uniform Space and Matter: The Mysterious Singularity; Dark Matter - The Grey Eminence; Dark Energy - The New Emperor; Expansion and Curvature of Space; The Fractal Architecture of the Universe: Cosmic Hierarchies - From Dream to Science; The Charm of Self-Similarity; Fractals and Chaos: Planets, Stardust, Dark Haloes; The Redshift - Quiet Cosmographer; Fractal Structure of the Galaxy Universe; The Origins of Megafractals.
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