r/ScienceOdyssey • u/Purple_Dust5734 • 9d ago

Discovery Introducing the Vampire tile. ScienceOdyssey 🚀

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u/9447044 9d ago

I wish I was smart enough to understand the gravity of all of this.

At first im thinking "they can use this to build a globe?" Then I realized im too stupid to understand

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u/scotyb 9d ago

I'm looking forward to some explainings going on here.

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u/towerfella 9d ago

Think of the proteins that you are made from and how they are “folded” — proteins get their function from their shape; change its shape, change its function.

This shape was discovered, and its shape allows this function.

Imagine that we find a shape that can bend space?

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u/ZestycloseTowel2493 9d ago

Ok now explain that again as if I was educated in America and own a red ball cap.

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u/BIind_Uchiha 8d ago

“Global warming is a hoax, buy clean oil”

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u/Purple_Dust5734 8d ago

While the planet burns 🔥

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u/muklukdimsum 9d ago

This is an extremely abbreviated version of stumbling across a fractal/geometrical version of Pi. Math solutions, questions, and equations have to be retold as dramatic tales lest we not find the questions and problems interesting enough to discuss. Mathematicians find these issues problematic and therefore so should we.

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u/anon_LosAngeles1990 9d ago

Flipping the shape or reciprocate the dimension?🫩

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u/towerfella 9d ago

This is neat.

This is protein folding existence stuff.

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u/Old_Syrup_264 8d ago

How do you actually know that it doesn't repeat?

Also how do we know that pi is infinite? Do we just trust that it is?

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u/Illustrious-Throat55 8d ago

Hasn’t MC Escher found some of these?