22/07/2020

Plato was right: Earth is made, on average, of cubes

Ο Πλάτων είχε διατυπώσει τη θεωρία πως το σύμπαν - μεταξύ αυτών και η Γη - αποτελείται από συγκεκριμένα γεωμετρικά σχήματα που στη βάση τους ήταν  κύβοι. Εν έτη 2020 φαίνεται πως βρίσκει τη δικαίωσή της.

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Plato, the Greek philosopher who lived in the 5th century B.C.E., believed that the universe was made of five types of matter: earth, air, fire, water, and cosmos. Each was described with a particular geometry, a platonic shape. For earth, that shape was the cube. Science has steadily moved beyond Plato's conjectures, looking instead to the atom as the building block of the universe. Yet Plato seems to have been onto something, researchers have found. In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team from the University of Pennsylvania, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and University of Debrecen uses math, geology, and physics to demonstrate that the average shape of rocks on Earth is a cube.

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Με την ευκαιρία να σας αφήκω και ένα βιβλίο του συναδέλφου μου που τον εκτιμώ πολύ: https://www.filosofia.gr/vivlia/KMaritsas_Politismos.pdf

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