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Scale Relativity: an Extended Paradigm for Physics and Biology?

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With scale relativity theory, Laurent Nottale has provided a powerful conceptual and mathematical framework with numerous validated predictions that has fundamental implications and applications for all sciences. We discuss how this extended framework reviewed in Nottale (Found Sci 152 (3):101–152, 2010a) may help facilitating integration across multiple size and time frames in systems biology, and the development of a scale relative biology with increased explanatory power.

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Correspondence to Charles Auffray.

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For a response to this commentary on Nottale (2010a) paper, see (Nottale 2010b).

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Auffray, C., Noble, D. Scale Relativity: an Extended Paradigm for Physics and Biology?. Found Sci 16, 303–305 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-010-9203-x

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