Abstract
Field propagation on fractal structures can generate a large scale symmetric space-time geometry. The significance of this fact and the nature of the resulting space-time are discussed.
“Each contained all the others, but in this totality each was confused and comingled with all the others without order and system.”—Haïm Vital, 1543–1620 (Kabbalist of Safed); English translation taken from “Sabbatai Sevi” by G. Scholem (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1973), p. 36.
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In honor of Ilya Prigogine, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
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Englert, F. From disorder to space-time geometry. Found Phys 17, 621–635 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01882791
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01882791