[shakil]

We know many things in nature are fractals: coastlines, tree branches, blood vessels...

What if the Universe is one big fractal, repeating itself at different scales: electrons go around a nucleus, planets around a star, stars/galaxies around blackholes, and so on and so on, building larger and larger structures.

[flukus]

Electrons don't rotate around the nucleus in the same way that planets go around stars, that's a simplification for high school text books. Supermassive black holes don't keep galaxies together either, galaxies rotate around themselves and even that isn't enough, hence dark matter.

[stkdump]

Fractals are not necessarily the same at different scales. They can be self-similar at different scales.

[_wzsf]

Central forces don't guarantee that the universe is made of fractals. Nothing, for instance, orbits an electron within an atom (excluding spin-orbit coupling and other such quantum nonsense).

[meroes]

https://youtu.be/jhnKBKZvb_U?t=3516

[kochikame]

What if? It is.