The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2021–2023.
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Veritasium explains how Penrose tilings and quasicrystals overturned the belief that 5-fold symmetry and non-periodic crystals were impossible, including an interview with Paul Steinhardt.
Strongly recommended as a mind-bending, approachable explanation of aperiodic patterns, even enjoyable with kids.
“My kids and I geeked out over the Veritasium video on Penrose tiles”
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My kids and I geeked out over the Veritasium video on Penrose tiles ( ▶ this video ). It is pretty exciting to see approachable math like this being discovered before our eyes.
in “Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat” · View on HN
Great video thanks for sharing. My brain still hurting, it tried to explode at 14.38 :-) ▶ this video Also quite interesting these are found in a few meteorites. I wonder if somebody is confidentially keeping some quasicrystal with very special properties somewhere. "Third-ever natural quasicrystal found in Siberian meteorite" [link]
in “The first atomic bomb created ‘forbidden’ quasicrystal” · View on HN
The Youtube channel "Veritasium" featured a great video on Penrose tilings and their relationship to quasicrystals [0]. A fascinating example of a mathematical discovery with a previously unsuspected physical incarnation. [0] ▶ this video
in “First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals” · View on HN
I just happened to come across this fascinating video[0] yesterday that explained the same thing. And he mentioned the crystal as well. [0] The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats: ▶ this video
in “The first atomic bomb created ‘forbidden’ quasicrystal” · View on HN