Chief Prognosticator

Fractals in Nature

Check out the coastline of Norway in winter and you will see a great example of a fractal in nature:
Fractals are actually very common when it comes to natural coastlines. This leads to a very real problem — How long is a coast line? There are many ways to approximate them with varying degrees of accuracy, but there is no way to get an absolute answer. It has been suggested that the damping behavior of coasts to waves are the cause for the rise of fractal coastlines.