The Self-Similar Cosmological Model

The self-similar cosmological model (SSCM) was first proposed and developed by Robert Oldershaw who has been ploughing a lone furrow since 1978. It is largely in line with the ideas on self-similarity developed in this work, but based exclusively on the assumption of a universe with infinite fractal geometry. A detailed exposition of the theory appeared in two papers of Oldershaw (1989a,b). Later papers elaborated on several aspects, without adding anything essentially new. 

At least 90% of the total observed mass is bound up in stellar and sub- 

An empirical value for A was established by comparison of objects at atomic and stellar levels, likely to be correlated, such as the radius of a Rydberg atom and the orbit of the planet Jupiter. To correlate mass scales the hydrogen atom and an M dwarf star of mass 0.15M are assumed analogous. The derived values of 

A conspicuous prediction of SSCM is the galactic analogue of a proton, identified as a black hole of mass 0.145M and Schwarzschild radius of 20 cm. Whereas 90% of atomic matter occurs as protons, the same percentage of black-hole analogues must represent all of the dark matter predicted by astrophysicists. 

If the assumed strong principle of self-similarity is valid, the cosmological hierarchy must be completely unbounded, since only in the case of an 

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