New Scientist this week has a stellar (literally) cover article this week on the controversy over whether the universe is fractal:

Cosmology is founded on the assumption that when you look at the universe at the vastest scales, matter is spread more or less evenly throughout space. Cosmologists call this a "smooth" structure. But a small band of researchers, led by statistical physicist Luciano Pietronero of the University of Rome and the Institute of Complex Systems, Italy, argues that this assumption is at odds with what we can see. Instead they claim that the galaxies form a structure that isn't smooth at all: some parts of it have lots of matter, others don't, but the matter always falls into the same patterns, in large and small versions, at whatever scale you look. In other words, the universe is fractal.

Click the link above for more.   And if this theory's true, there's no better way to be in harmony with the cosmic sphere than by wearing fractal jewelry, such as this belt buckle by Allegria Designs.