On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Tim May wrote:
Argghhhh. Anyone claiming that something "can't be fractal," as Choate apparently does in the section you quote, just doesn't understand the meaning of fractal.
Or, in Choateworld, "Since all physical things have three spatial dimensions, there are no non-integer dimensions, and hence fractals cannot exist."
Bullshit. I find fractals all the time. I make a good part of my living dealing with them.
Like Choatian physics, Choatian economics, Choatian law, and Choatian history, such crankish ideas are neither useful nor interesting.
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