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		tome 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Root for your friends The point wasn't that particles can interact that way, but that that is how they interact. But that requires infinite regression. (That needn't necessarily be a problem, but it does need a justification.)

nthingtohide 8 months ago [–]

We already have mathematical metaphors of such infinity compressed in finite regions. E.g. statistical self-similarity of mandelbrot fractal.

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