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	''On the Fractal Nature of Existence'' is a 29-page monograph by [[Christopher A. Laforet]] that attempts to replace the four fundamental interactions of standard physics — [[gravity]], electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces — with a single '''Universal Force''' that is ''repulsive'' and whose magnitude grows without bound as the separation between bodies shrinks. The paper's starting point is not a new field equation but a re-reading of [[Special Relativity]]: Laforet proposes that the geodesics of space-time are literally waves, that mass is "a vibrating point of space" which is the source of those waves, and that what physics calls the time dimension is nothing but the arc length of the wave wrapped around the spatial dimensions. From those premises he derives a force law, then applies it in turn to falling bodies, electric charge, nuclear binding, magnetism, electron orbitals, the double-slit experiment, galactic rotation curves, [[antimatter]], the arrow of time and cosmic expansion.		''On the Fractal Nature of Existence'' is a 29-page monograph by [[Christopher A. Laforet]] that attempts to replace the four fundamental interactions of standard physics — [[gravity]], electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces — with a single '''Universal Force''' that is ''repulsive'' and whose magnitude grows without bound as the separation between bodies shrinks. The paper's starting point is not a new field equation but a re-reading of [[Special Relativity]]: Laforet proposes that the geodesics of space-time are literally waves, that mass is "a vibrating point of space" which is the source of those waves, and that what physics calls the time dimension is nothing but the arc length of the wave wrapped around the spatial dimensions. From those premises he derives a force law, then applies it in turn to falling bodies, electric charge, nuclear binding, magnetism, electron orbitals, the double-slit experiment, galactic rotation curves, [[antimatter]], the arrow of time and cosmic expansion.

	The departure from the mainstream account is deliberate and total. There is no charge, no photon, no force-carrying particle, no wave-particle duality, no [[dark matter]], no [[dark energy]] and no singularity. Attraction — including the fall of Newton's apple and the binding of the electron to the proton — is not a force at all but a ''shadowing'' effect: nearby bodies screen one another from the much larger repulsion exerted by the rest of the universe, so that the residual, unbalanced push from outside drives them together. This places the paper squarely in the [[Push Gravity]] tradition, though Laforet arrives at it from relativistic kinematics rather than from a corpuscular flux, and he combines it with an appeal to the bulk universe that is explicitly [[Mach's Principle\|Machian]]. The concluding section pushes the scheme to its limit: because the model fixes no smallest or largest length, the same structure must repeat at every scale, so that "our universe may be an electron in the DNA strand of a much larger entity."		The departure from the mainstream account is deliberate and total. There is no charge, no photon, no force-carrying particle, no wave-particle duality, no [[dark matter]], no [[Dark Energy\|dark energy]] and no singularity. Attraction — including the fall of Newton's apple and the binding of the electron to the proton — is not a force at all but a ''shadowing'' effect: nearby bodies screen one another from the much larger repulsion exerted by the rest of the universe, so that the residual, unbalanced push from outside drives them together. This places the paper squarely in the [[Push Gravity]] tradition, though Laforet arrives at it from relativistic kinematics rather than from a corpuscular flux, and he combines it with an appeal to the bulk universe that is explicitly [[Mach's Principle\|Machian]]. The concluding section pushes the scheme to its limit: because the model fixes no smallest or largest length, the same structure must repeat at every scale, so that "our universe may be an electron in the DNA strand of a much larger entity."

	==The argument==		==The argument==

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{{Infobox paper
| title = On the Fractal Nature of Existence
| url = [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6543.pdf Link to paper]
| author = [[]]
| keywords = [[Quantum Gravity]], [[dark energy]], [[dark matter]], [[expansion of the universe]]
| published = 2012
| journal = [[None]]
| num_pages = 29
}}

'''Read the full paper''' [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6543.pdf here]

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