Well, the periodic table is the periodic table. IE, if you have a set number of protons and neutrons in a nucleus with a set number of electrons in orbit, it's the same particle regardless whether you place it here, on the other end of the universe, or in a star._sluimers_ wrote:Wouldn't a fractal universe also imply that elementary particles do not exist or exist on every level?
I don't see a Periodic Table of the Stars.
Thus far, the "fractal" idea has only been mentioned with relation to the distribution or clumpiness of matter in he articles I've read. I don't know whether they have tried to apply the idea to the microscopic realm, so much as they've been researching the macrocosmic realm. But I don't see why the fractal nature wouldn't extend down to the level of microscopic stuff in the presence of currents, etc. Keeping in minds that the fractal nature of the cosmos is generally filamentary, the plasma cosmology / EU tends toward the notion that those filaments are electrically / magnetically structured plasma. On our level, much of what we see is "neutral," relatively cold non-plasma. IE, recombined elementary particles where the electro- part of EM has been locally canceled out. Atoms have more or less the proper / equal amounts of charge carriers clumped together to keep much of the interesting electric stuff from going on. So, I'd say that where we look at electrical interactions in the lab on the micro scale I'd think there would certainly be self-similar processes to those we see in space. Or vice versa, electrical stuff we see in the lab is applicable, via scaling, to what we see in space. That's a good part of the basis of plasma cosmology, insofar as I understand it. Of course that's just me.
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