Plato was right: Earth is made, on average, of cubes
Monday, July 20, 2020 - 07:10
in Astronomy & Space
Plato, the Greek philosopher who lived in the 5th century B.C.E., believed that the universe was made of five types of matter: earth, air, fire, water, and cosmos. Each was described with a particular geometry, a platonic shape. For earth, that shape was the cube.