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by llamaz 3220 days ago
I mean that the physicists have accounted for the limited amount of information available and still conclude that the observable universe is not a fractal.

I remember thinking about this in 2011/2012 when it wasn't known (IIRC there was a bet over a bottle of wine between two physicists over this matter). But years later, because a satellite "zoomed out" far enough and sent images back to earth, physicists confirmed that it is very likely that the observable universe is not a fractal (i.e. it's Hausdorff-Besikovitch dimension, which is calculated from measurements, is fractional).

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innerrestin but hard to believe to be a settled matter