DISCOVERY OF COSMIC FRACTALS

DISCOVERY OF COSMIC FRACTALS

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	i
PART I THE SCIENCE OF COSMIC ORDER
The birth of cosmological principles YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	3
The gate into cosmic order YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	21
The Paradoxal Universe of Sir Isaac YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	41
The dream of a hierarchical world: protofractals YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	53
PART II COSMOLOGICAL PHYSICS FOR THE REALM OF GALAXIES
The new world of relativity and quantum forces YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	69
Gravity – the enigmatic creator of order YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	89
The law of redshift in the kingdom of galaxies YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	109
The triumph of uniformity in cosmology YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	129
PART III THE ELUSIVE SIMPLICITY OF UNIFORM SPACE AND MATTER
The mysterious singularity YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	151
Dark matter – the grey eminence YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	171
Dark energy – the new emperor YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	183
Expansion and curvature of space YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	193
PART IV THE FRACTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
Cosmic hierarchies: from dream to science YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	215
The charm of self-similarity YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	229
Fractal and chaos: planets, stardust, dark haloes YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	247
Redshift – the quiet cosmographer YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	269
Fractal structure of the galaxy universe YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	295
The Origins of Megafractals YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	329
BACK MATTER YURIJ BARYSHEV and PEKKA TEERIKORPI	359

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