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161CHAPTER 31 Alice in fractal land AFRACTAL IS THE REPRODUCTION of shapes on ever smaller (or larger) scales. Nature comes in numerous geometric(spatial) fractals. We can find them in snowflakes, sponges, cauliflower,sea shells, coastlines, the human body, mountains, clouds, ferns, leavesand trees. In general, we can see them in every realm and manifesta-tion of nature. FractalFractal == SelfSelf --similaritysimilarity by by changingchanging scalesscales == TheThesamesame ««shapeshape »»isismultipliedmultiplied as as ititclones clones itselfitself whilewhile growinggrowing largerlarger or or smallersmaller == space --timestimes ofofabsoluteabsolute relativityrelativity Figure 33