WHAT COSMIC HIERARCHY?
Discrete Scale Relativity draws attention to the self-evident, but often under-appreciated, fact that from the smallest observable subatomic particles to the largest cosmological structures, nature is organized in a hierarchical manner.
Although the whole hierarchy, in its full detail, is quasi-continuous, DSR emphasizes that the cosmological hierarchy is also highly stratified. While the observable portion of the entire hierarchy encompasses nearly 80 orders of magnitude in mass, three narrow mass ranges, each extending for only about 5 orders of magnitude, account for 99% of all mass observed in nature in a hierarchical arrangement. These dominant mass ranges are referred to as the Atomic Scale (particles and atoms), the Stellar Scale (planetary- and stellar-mass objects) and the Galactic Scale (globular clusters and galaxies). The three Scales constitute the discrete self-similar scaffolding of the observable portion of the quasi-continuous hierarchy. DSR proposes that nature’s hierarchy extends far beyond our current observational limits on both large and small scales, and probably is completely unbounded in terms of scale, such that there are no largest or smallest objects (or Scales) in nature.
DSR interprets the many examples of self-similarity between the the kinematics and morphologies of the fundamental objects on these radically different size/mass/time Scales as being due to the fact that virtually the same physics applies throughout the highly stratified (i.e., discrete) cosmic hierarchy. A large amount of research material developing this new paradigm, including numerous published papers, can be read or accessed using the website linked below.