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Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation
- pabo 6y agoScienceMag has a post about this result [0]. From that text: "Perhaps the Cubists were right. Researchers have found that when everything from icebergs to rocks breaks apart, their pieces tend to resemble cubes. The finding suggests a universal rule of fragmentation at scales ranging from the microscopic to the planetary." [0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/rocks-icebergs-natural-world-tends-break-cubes https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/rocks-icebergs-natur...