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To: snarks_when_bored
...which for some reason reminds me of this bit of de Morgan doggerel: Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

No, Fractals really are, like that.... they showed coastlines, snowflakes, and talked about the double universe....

30 posted on 09/14/2006 11:26:01 PM PDT by onyx eyes ( .....they found a live-seemingly, Bacteria type, in rocks. Recently.)
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To: onyx eyes
I was kidding around...

As for fractals, you might enjoy this:

Andrei Linde, The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe" (PDF)

33 posted on 09/14/2006 11:44:16 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: onyx eyes

Thenks fer the inspiration fer the new tagline.


46 posted on 09/15/2006 2:35:34 AM PDT by Erasmus (I invited Benoit Mandelbrot to the Shoreline Grill, but he never got there.)
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