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To: LibWhacker

Wow, who would have guessed that the ancient Greeks would have gotten the shape of the universe correct so long ago. Obviously they were talking something slightly different, aether, but the fact that Plato and Aristotle postulated the shape of it to be the dodecahedron is very interesting indeed. Did the scientist who did this study belong to the Pythagorean cult?


4 posted on 09/28/2008 12:34:43 PM PDT by aft_lizard (One animal actually eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
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To: aft_lizard

Cool, I just clicked on that link at the bottom of the page and was reading about that. Amazing!


10 posted on 09/28/2008 12:47:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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I was put in mind of Kepler's "Harmony of the Spheres"
16 posted on 09/28/2008 12:54:25 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
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