https://pocket.averello.info/tags/platon/ Recent content in platon on Pocket Vault Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us averello Sun, 14 Feb 2021 15:33:01 +0200 https://pocket.averello.info/articles/platonic-solids/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 15:33:01 +0200 https://pocket.averello.info/articles/platonic-solids/ The Particle: Platonic solids The Particle - The wrong turn that led physics to a dead end © Engineer Xavier Borg - Blaze Labs Platonic Solids & States of matter What's so important about them? Plato's Timaeus conjectures on the composition of the four elements which the ancient Greeks thought made up the universe: earth, water, air, and fire. Plato conjectured each of these elements to be made up of a certain Platonic solid: the element of earth would be a cube, of air an octahedron, of water an icosahedron, and of fire a tetrahedron.