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Famous Physicists on Mysticism #2: “The Debate Between Plato and Democritus” by Werner Heisenberg

Saturday, September 18, 2010

It was here in this part of the world, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, that the philosophers Leucippus and Democritus pondered about the structure of matter, and down there in the marketplace, where twilight is now falling, that Socrates disputed about the basic difficulties in our modes of expression and Plato taught that [...]

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Platonic Solids in Nature

Monday, August 30, 2010

Platonic solids, or regular convex polyhedra, are named after the Greek philosopher Plato who theorized that the five classical elements (Empedocles’ wind, water, fire, and earth, with an added element for spirit) were actually comprised of regular polyhedra. They are five in number and named for the number of faces they exhibit. They are the [...]

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