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Plato’s Surprising Point: The Earth Is Made Out of Cubes – techtoday19
Plato, the well-known Greek philosopher that lived 25 centuries ago, thought that the universe contained five different types of matter water, air, earth, cosmos and fire. Each type of matter had a certain geometry ascribed to it, named a platonic shape. Eart…
Plato, the well-known Greek philosopher that lived 25 centuries ago, thought that the universe contained five different types of matter water, air, earth, cosmos and fire. Each type of matter had a certain geometry ascribed to it, named a platonic shape. Earth was shaped like a cube.
In these 25 centuries, science progressed quite a lot. We now know that the atom is the building block of the universe, not the cube or even the circle. However, from some point of view, Plato was actually right.
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