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In today's [5/19/11] issue of Nature is a report on a very important discovery of a huge population of unbound planetary-mass objects.

Also exciting is that this population was predicted 25 years ago by a FRACTAL model of nature.

A huge population of unbound planetary-mass objects was predicted in the Astrophysical Journal in 1987 [vol. 322(1), pgs. 34-36]. Pulsar-planets were also later predicted in a published paper.

A discussion of this form of dark matter, and its detection via microlensing was published in:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0002/0002363.pdf 
[Fractals 10(1), 27-38, 2002]

It is a great pleasure to see this population finally being revealed to us. The stellar-mass MACHOs and the planetary-mass unbound objects discovered via microlensing may constitute the galactic dark matter, and its specific two-peak mass spectrum was predicted definitively almost 25 years ago. It has been a long wait, but better late than never.

Robert L. Oldershaw
http://www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw
Discrete Scale Relativity; Fractal Cosmology

I wonder if things on our own planet can be predicted the same way? Something like cave systems?

I love this Forum! This is so neat!

However, we do like to take the glory over older civilisations that predicted the same thing but had no technology to prove it. All they had was their belief in the Fractal nature of all things.

Benoit made possible one thing: a popuiarisation of the whole roughly self similar structure of everything, symbolised by the Mandelbrot set, and thereby giving an empirical basis to all philosophy.

Very interesting indeed!
I found a link: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473/n7347/full/nature10092.html