Fractals In Nature

From: Rob Oldershaw (rloldershaw_at_amherst.edu)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: 4 Nov 2004 08:53:06 -0800

For those who are interested in fractal phenomena that occur in
nature, at the website www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw the latest "New
Development" (August 2004) offers a possible example. The
distribution of masses for white dwarf stars has a curious
periodicity, with a highly diagnostic gap, that may require a fractal
explanation based on self-similarity between atomic and stellar mass
functions.