Is the matter in the universe arranged in a fractal pattern? A new study of nearly a million galaxies suggests it is .
Although there is no mechanism to describe this, I would have been extremely surprised if it weren’t the case. It implies that matter itself is balanced on a knife edge state of existence between order and chaos and suggests two competing, balanced, forces, applied algorithmically, somehow (a mapping). It also suggests that the mechanism for creating fractal structures such as weather patterns and living things is related to something bigger. Perhaps a cosmic level natural selection via the 2nd Law?