Geometry Reveals How the World Is Assembled from Cubes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/geometry-reveals-how-the-world-is-assembled-from-cubes-20201119/

by georgecmu • 6 years ago

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tzot• 6 years ago

Doesn't this point to the same article as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25171662 ?

headalgorithm• 6 years ago

Yes it does. Curse of the second chance queue.

napier• 6 years ago

Perhaps we're living in Minecraft with better resolution.

progre• 6 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom thinks this is quite likely.

martyvis• 6 years ago

I studied a metallurgy subject that focussed on crystals as a bit of fillin in my electrical engineering degree. The thing is that large scale macro features like crystalline surfaces and grains are driven by atomic structure that was first deduced through x-ray imaging and then like.

zipotm• 6 years ago

Walter Russell is the name.

YeGoblynQueenne• 6 years ago

Currently right above an article titled "I'm building a Minecraft clone in hardware, on a tiny FPGA with 143kb of RAM" on the HN front page.

Geometry Reveals How the World Is Assembled from Cubes

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