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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fractals are not required to be self-repatiing. For example, the Mandelbrot set is a non-self repeating fractal pattern.

And please elaborate on how they are fundamentally finite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Coastlines exist in the real world, they are by definition finite structures. You can only zoom in to them so far before the structure is no longer a coastline.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thats making a lot of assumptions about quantum physics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

An atom is not a coastline, even if it is a piece of one