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hetware - 27 May 2007 16:21 GMT
This question appears in the problem supplement to the Feynman
Lectures: "Can you explain why there are no crystals which have the shape
of a regular pentagon? (Triangles, squares, and hexagons are common in
crystal forms.)"

I can flail my hands about and say something like, 'there are no
arrangements of pentagons which would result in a minimal energy
configuration', but that seems like begging the question.  Is there a
geometrical explanation for this?
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The Ghost In The Machine - 27 May 2007 17:40 GMT
In sci.physics, hetware
<massless@nutrino.none>
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on Sun, 27 May 2007 11:21:53 -0400
<4vSdnZ6ZleaOP8TbnZ2dnUVZ_sKunZ2d@speakeasy.net>:
> This question appears in the problem supplement to the Feynman
> Lectures: "Can you explain why there are no crystals which have the shape
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> configuration', but that seems like begging the question.  Is there a
> geometrical explanation for this?

Well, one reason one doesn't see pentagonal crystals is a
simple one: pentagons can't tesselate the plane.  Hexagons,
triangles, squares, rhomboids, and parallelograms, yes,
but one can't fit together pentagons to cover an area.

The best one can do is pentagons with certain gaps.

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hetware - 28 May 2007 09:01 GMT
> In sci.physics, hetware
> <massless@nutrino.none>
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> triangles, squares, rhomboids, and parallelograms, yes,
> but one can't fit together pentagons to cover an area.

Though that may be a valid line of argument, it assumes that tesselating the
plane is requisite.  I don't deny that it is required, but one might
speculate that crystals could form in some other way than arranged in a
plane.  I'm envisioning a bucky ball type of arrangement.

> The best one can do is pentagons with certain gaps.

There is another problem in the same set which I posted to sci.math earlier.
What I learned from investigating it is that proving the obvious is not
always easy.  Have a look at the Kepler Conjecture.  Here's my earlier
post:

"You are given a large number of steel balls of equal diameter d and a
container of known volume V.  Every dimension of the container is much
greater than the diameter of a ball.  What is the greatest number of balls
that can be placed in the container?"

My argument is this:  The most efficient arrangement will be a lattice of
tetrahedrons.  The spheres in one layer will be arranged so that their
centers form equilateral triangles with their neighbors.  That means the
distance between adjacent rows will be  Sqrt[3] d/2.  The spheres in the
adjacent layer will be arranged over the centers of these triangles.
Suppose these are the vertices of the first triangle in the first layer
assuming d=1:

v1 = {0, 0, 0};
v2 = {1, 0, 0};
v3 = {1/2, Sqrt[3]/2, 0};

To find the fourth vertex in the tetrahedron, we first find the center of
the triangle:

vc=(v1+v2+v3)/3={1/2, 1/(2 Sqrt[3]), 0}

Then we find the vertical displacement that will result in an edge of unit
length.  

vc.vc + z z= 1
z z=1-1/3
z=Sqrt[2/3]

v4={1/2, 1/(2 Sqrt[3]), Sqrt[2/3] }

We really didn't need v4 to solve the problem, but it helps in understanding
it.  What we now have is the fact that there are  X/d spheres in a row,
there are Y/(d Sqrt[3]/2) rows in a layer, and there are Z/(d Sqrt[2/3])
layers in a volume XYZ.

n = Sqrt[2] XYZ/(d^3)

Does that look right?

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The Ghost In The Machine - 28 May 2007 14:41 GMT
In sci.physics, hetware
<massless@nutrino.none>
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on Mon, 28 May 2007 04:01:06 -0400
<q72dnXxDJZLXEcfbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@speakeasy.net>:

>> In sci.physics, hetware
>> <massless@nutrino.none>
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
> speculate that crystals could form in some other way than arranged in a
> plane.  I'm envisioning a bucky ball type of arrangement.

Buckyballs are dodecahedrons; they don't tile space too well. :-)  In
fact, the only things that *do* tile space offhand are parallelpipeds
and a combination of a tetrahedron and an octahedron.

One could of course combine dodecahedrons with something else; I'm not
sure what that something else would be, but it would fill in the gaps.
But that doesn't mean dodecahedrons tile space.

>> The best one can do is pentagons with certain gaps.
>
[quoted text clipped - 42 lines]
>
> Does that look right?

Well, now you've shifted gears on me, but the sphere-packing problem is
a known one, and AFAIK has been solved, with great difficulty.  The best
ratio possible is pi/(3 * sqrt(2)) =~ 0.7405:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpherePacking.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/8_15_98/fob7.htm

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Y.Porat - 28 May 2007 16:02 GMT
On May 28, 4:41 pm, The Ghost In The Machine
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
> In sci.physics, hetware
> <massl...@nutrino.none>
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>
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had the Atom or nucleus been spheres

*th e **number of possible combinations structures
of those Atoms *
(of heavier than Fluorine )
would be*** much bigger **!!!

only a tetraheder shape of the heavier than fluorins
can explain why th enumber of possible 3d structures
are as is
the key question that experts should ask themselves is

why is the number of combination structures
is 'so limited ' !!!
and than you will get just one hint
about the real structues of single Nucs and Atoms

Y.Porat
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Y.Porat - 28 May 2007 09:27 GMT
On May 27, 7:40 pm, The Ghost In The Machine
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
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that is not the comprehensive answer

the better answer is actually
one of the verifications of my
nuclear and Atomic model

elements until Fluorine are composed of

Alpha particles that are tetraheders

above fluorine it becomes

'rectangular pipes' or more accurate
it is  sort of octahedr pipe
but from bonds point of view it is
a rectangular pipes
that basic  structure gives unequivocally
the hexagonal  3d structures

the  interesting thing is tha this nuclear structure goes fron
Fluorine upwards
all the way to  the heaviest elements

so  i suggest that you consult
expert No 1 of nuclear and Atomic structure
ie
one that has as for now
the best closest to reality model

see
just the appetiser of my model in

www.geocities.com/porat_y/mypage.html

(prodided i typed it without mistakes
from my memory    (:-)

ATB
Y.Porat
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Eric Gisse - 28 May 2007 11:55 GMT
[...]

How nice - a reason that totally denies analytic geometry.
Y.Porat - 28 May 2007 12:54 GMT
> [...]
>
> How nice - a reason that totally denies analytic geometry.

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imbecil crook and hand waiver moron

jsut piss of and mind your parroting  bissiness

it is apparent that   you are a disturbed
personal enemy
and a walkind damage to the advance of science
but it whant help you !!

go finish first your BSC !!
and only than you wil become.......
a real  beginner parrrot !!  (:-)

Y.Porat
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Eric Gisse - 28 May 2007 21:13 GMT
[...]

That's OK - geometry is hard. It is much easier to make up some sh.t
theory instead.
Y.Porat - 29 May 2007 03:47 GMT
> [...]
>
> That's OK - geometry is hard. It is much easier to make up some sh.t
> theory instead.

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imbecil  Nazi bump parasite crook!!
and  disturbed  moron as well
that diverst posts to his moron ng
and ddint notice untill now
that it does not work on me
(he is not intelligent enough to notice even
that (:-)

why cant there be a planar ring of  a heavy Atoms
of say 20 Atoms in each ring
or even mor ethan 8 ??
while each one of them is spherical ??

that question is not for the disturbed undergarduate Shaise

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Phineas T Puddleduck - 29 May 2007 03:49 GMT
> imbecil  Nazi bump parasite crook!!
> and  disturbed  moron as well
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>
> that question is not for the disturbed undergarduate Shaise

Froth. Foam. Froth. Foam.

Rinse

Repeat.

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John "C" - 29 May 2007 04:29 GMT
> > imbecil  Nazi bump parasite crook!!
> > and  disturbed  moron as well
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
>
> Repeat.

Y. Porat,

Always delete alt.usenet.kooks off your responses to Gay-Tard Phineass T.
PuddlePuss or you'll have a dozen AUKers attacking you!  You don't want
that!

Good day,
HJ
The Ghost In The Machine - 29 May 2007 00:25 GMT
In sci.physics, Y.Porat
<y.y.porat@gmail.com>
wrote
on 28 May 2007 01:27:46 -0700
<1180340866.504103.79660@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>:
> On May 27, 7:40 pm, The Ghost In The Machine
> <e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 39 lines]
>
> Alpha particles that are tetraheders

Um...Alpha particles are buried deep in the nucleus,
if they can indeed be conceptually isolated at all.
Apart from the positive charge protons do not partake at
all in chemical reactions, and neutrons just add mass.

If you are referring to the probability structures of
various electron orbitals, they do indeed form various odd
looking structures (at highly minute dimensions, of course,
which means we conceptually have to "zoom in"; the size
of an atom is about 250x-500x smaller than visible light).

However, none of them are pentagonal.

> above fluorine it becomes
>
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> one that has as for now
>  the best closest to reality model

And the reason I would need a nuclear expert to explain chemical
considerations such as crystallography is ... ?

> see
> just the appetiser of my model in
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> (prodided i typed it without mistakes
> from my memory    (:-)

Considering your atrocious diction, I'm not hopeful. :-P
You can't even spell "Linus Pauling" or "abstract" correctly.

The accompanying PDF is badly typeset, though Table 2 is of
some interest, but with no explanation on how the values were
calculated.  (Ideally, the Standard Model would have a similar table.
Of course observed values should be reasonably readily available.)

One of the more interesting claims;
  UNDERSTAND MY CLAIM-
  THAT IN HEAVY NUCLEI: THE NUMBER OF ELECTRONS AROUND THE NUC IS NOT
  NECESSARILY THE NUMBER OF PROTONS IN THAT NUC!. [sic]

The diagrams look like a combination of bacteria and Tinker-toys.
This doesn't necessarily make them wrong, but they're certainly not
standard.

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> Y.Porat
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Y.Porat - 29 May 2007 04:32 GMT
On May 29, 2:25 am, The Ghost In The Machine
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
> In sci.physics, Y.Porat
> <y.y.po...@gmail.com>
>  wrote
 > expert No 1 of nuclear and Atomic structure
> > ie
> > one that has as for now
[quoted text clipped - 44 lines]
>
> - Show quoted text -

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thank you Ghost

btw sorry i dont know your ereal name
it could be muchnicer
now i satrt o repect you as a serious scientist

tha tbothered to spend a minima time on my model
now i wonder why you pick on me say on myspelling
of say paulling instead of Pauling

i was dwelling on the opening page
more or less as i dwell now on my post (:-0
i was in stress
i didnt know how to handle all that site bui,ding
and it took me a few minutes to 'sjape that
opening page' includiong the confution
of not knowing how to insert a link etc etc
in short
i am a  cpmplete igorant in sit ebuilding
and eevn  to this moment
i dont know how toedit that page
and fix a silly mistake like spelling Pauling
i had his book and lerened a lot form him
about the geometric structure of the Atom
even later i realise that in some parts
he was not adavnced enough !1
at themoment i was scribbling the openiong page
i didnt have the book on my front so i jsut
typed Pauling from mwemory without thinking twice
so he goes the 'Pauk\ling'
that all 'experts' that rad it see it as
a n   indivcation   of my model !! (:-)
whileactually understand nothing
about the invaluable real  sunstance of the model
fo rme it is a good indication about hoe much
they dont understand it
and just spewing

now to your undersyatnding it:

you cant in a few moments
we deal with a quite bu tnot 'in heaven'
3d structure
most mathematics parrots are completely untrained
even as a structural engineer
todeal with 3d structures
now it becomes more difficult while
youi ahve to express it on a flat paper
can you immasgine a structure like
see the lead nuc )
drawn on a flat paper
while you have to describe ther
dozens of detailes  that are lying in 3d ??!!
so i had to invent a sort of a codish
system of graphyisc laguage
todoit simper on a paper
and let mr tell you that without that
graphic invention
i had no changeto deal withthose
structures even while iam atrained structuralenginer
becaie waht you see is klus tthe bottom line
of my work
btw jsust a few of the 92 that i solved
and you should knowe
that i did a long many years
about a  thousand of trial and error
structues
untill it was satisfacrory
from mass  chemistry cristalline
and other knwn data to fit it to one
harmony !!
yes sindeed my beginning was walking in copplete darkness
of trial end errors
but gradually i satted to find that there is some
law and oeder in it
which i defined unequivocally
and amde my work easyer as tome went on
i dont reveal all thsose laws in my absrat
because of secrecy reasone!
no one is entitled according to my interets
toknow anything about my model
so amy be it is one of the  reasons
peole dont find their hand and legs there

it is just an apetiser for peole
that *i* will chose to know it all laong
and probably could advance it further
but only after realy knowing it
that has to  take months of study !!
ie only for serious *responsible* people 2
you are rigth
one of my surprising and difficult to get
even for me at eh beginning
was the revolusinaly finding that

The number of electrons 'arounf the nuc'
in a heavy atom
is not neccessary the number of Porotons init

enough for today  (:-)

ps sorry for not spellcheking
even me can see a lot of mistakes..
yet one still can understand me
with some effort

3
think abou tmy question
who for insatnce not more than 6  Atoms
in a 'ring'  of 'alleged 'spheres ' !!

ATB
Y.Porat
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The Ghost In The Machine - 29 May 2007 06:57 GMT
In sci.physics, Y.Porat
<y.y.porat@gmail.com>
wrote
on 28 May 2007 20:32:50 -0700
<1180409570.231061.299900@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>:
> On May 29, 2:25 am, The Ghost In The Machine
> <e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 57 lines]
> it could be muchnicer
> now i satrt o repect you as a serious scientist

I'm no scientist, just one of the laymen. :-)

> tha tbothered to spend a minima time on my model
> now i wonder why you pick on me say on myspelling
> of say paulling instead of Pauling

I'm a professional nitpicker, admittedly.  :-)  (My job
is to develop programs, which involves debugging.)

> i was dwelling on the opening page
> more or less as i dwell now on my post (:-0
[quoted text clipped - 84 lines]
> in a heavy atom
> is not neccessary the number of Porotons init

You'll have to some some good evidence for that one.

It is, of course, possible to ionize any atom -- with
the possible exception of hydrogen, for there's only one
electron, and even then, it is possible, though one ends
up with a slightly odd compound (H3OH+, I think) rather
than a naked proton.

There are also strange issues with the metallic bond.
I'd frankly have to look at this point; presumably, some
of these issues lead to things such as thermocouples.

However, in an atom's more or less natural state, the
charges should match.

> enough for today  (:-)
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> who for insatnce not more than 6  Atoms
> in a 'ring'  of 'alleged 'spheres ' !!

There are 12 atoms in the closepackings I'm aware of.
Several variants are possible but I'd have to look; the general idea
is to have sheets of regular hexagons overlapping one another.  At each
hexagonal vertex is a sphere of the requisite radius.

> ATB
> Y.Porat
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Y.Porat - 29 May 2007 08:41 GMT
On May 29, 8:57 am, The Ghost In The Machine
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
> In sci.physics, Y.Porat
> <y.y.po...@gmail.com>
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you saied that th enumber of positive charges
ahs to be as the negative ones
very nice !!

yet did it ever occure to you that many Protons
that are deep in the nuc ....
lost their positive charge
while they made the strong inner bonds ??!!

2
as you say
the base for all heavy Atoms is Alpha particles
that are tetraheders  NOTHING ELSE !!
some of them has additional protons neutrons
deuterons at their perifery
but the main skeleton of the heavy nuc is
ALOHA PARTICLES  that are tetrahedrons !
ANDNOT SPHERES
you can enclose an Alpha by an IMMAGINARY
SPHERE
yet it is not a sphere!!
bacasue a real sphere has matter all over its
envelope
while the tetraheder does not
it has electron 'arms' just in certain
directions
therefore the number of directions in which
it can make connections is limited!!
and that is why th enumber of structures it cam make

*is less than expected form a sphere !!

ATB
Y.Porat
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Autymn D. C. - 30 May 2007 02:15 GMT
Look up sulfur chains and rings.  Heck, look up cycloparaffins.
The Ghost In The Machine - 30 May 2007 07:42 GMT
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<lysdexia@sbcglobal.net>
wrote
on 29 May 2007 18:15:03 -0700
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> Look up sulfur chains and rings.  Heck, look up cycloparaffins.

Benzene. :-)

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Y.Porat - 30 May 2007 10:17 GMT
On May 30, 9:42 am, The Ghost In The Machine
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
> In sci.physics, Autymn D. C.
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as far as i know benzen is the clasical
discovery of kekule
it is a hexagon

but not a palanar one
it is 'in two sories' ie 3d
now biological compouns are a stor for itself

the y are far complicated to folow
all its detailes

ie for insatnce  'how many 'stories' (leveles)
each of them has !!
my question is
in a **single plan** !!
to make it simpler
and to make a point !!!

ATB
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The Ghost In The Machine - 30 May 2007 07:42 GMT
In sci.physics, Y.Porat
<y.y.porat@gmail.com>
wrote
on 29 May 2007 00:41:55 -0700
<1180424515.263969.27580@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:
> On May 29, 8:57 am, The Ghost In The Machine
> <e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 221 lines]
> lost their positive charge
> while they made the strong inner bonds ??!!

And this is documented precisely where?

A proton is two ups and a down; a neutron two downs and
an up.  Gluons can shuttle between quarks, but charge
is conserved no matter what they do, unless an electron
wanders in (electron capture) -- and charge is still
conserved, since the electron gets essentially eaten, cancelling
one of the positive charges.

> 2
> as you say
> the base for all heavy Atoms is Alpha particles
> that are tetraheders  NOTHING ELSE !!

Oh, now you're being a tad ridiculous.  The basis for all
heavy atoms is the same as the light ones: protons and
neutrons, or, if you prefer, up and down quarks.

> some of them has additional protons neutrons
> deuterons at their perifery
> but the main skeleton of the heavy nuc is
> ALOHA PARTICLES  that are tetrahedrons !

I'll admit to wondering.  Of course, the alpha particle
as traditionally represented is a fat tetrahedron, (two
balls placed across two other balls) but that's not an
accurate representation any more than a clay model of an
automobile is a car.

The Bohr model was discarded long ago for electrons; the
same should be done for the nucleus, though I frankly don't
know what the result should look like other than it's all fuzzy
and contains a certain number of up quarks, a number of down quarks,
and a lot of gluons.

The best I can do is that there are 6 up and 6 down quarks
in an alpha particle.  This may partially explain why so
many radioactive atoms eject alpha particles, as opposed to
single protons or neutrons.  (Some do eject beta particles, admittedly.)

> ANDNOT SPHERES
>  you can enclose an Alpha by an IMMAGINARY
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> it has electron 'arms' just in certain
> directions

Don't be ridiculous.  The electrons are way outside of the nucleus.

> therefore the number of directions in which
> it can make connections is limited!!
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Y.Porat - 30 May 2007 10:37 GMT
On May 30, 9:42 am, The Ghost In The Machine
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
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Hey Ghost

you have a looooooooooot to learn!! (:-)

you are not even a beginner about
nuclear and Atomic structure anyway
i can promise you
it is a whole wondeful  like  'new continent'
to dsicover !!!
to explain it to you about your satte of knowlwdge

lets take a methaphore:

supose one would ask you about Americal
and you would anwer

oh   !! yess !! i heared rumours that .......

that America is far away in the west
and may be if you sail west you migh tfind land
but it is not sure
because you might fall into the end of the world

]
and it is probably India .....
and if you land there may be you will find there
yelow people  with an ancient culture
and i think that thiet capital city is  New Delhi!!
and i cant recall or immagine anything more about America  !!  (;-)

that is more or less your situation with
nuclear and Atomic structure

anyway
if you ahve free time
i tmigh tbe a wonderful(endless !!) adventure fo ryou
to find better knowledge ......
ATB
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The Ghost In The Machine - 31 May 2007 07:10 GMT
In sci.physics, Y.Porat
<y.y.porat@gmail.com>
wrote
on 30 May 2007 02:37:06 -0700
<1180517826.601570.57600@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>:
> On May 30, 9:42 am, The Ghost In The Machine
> <e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 76 lines]
>
> you have a looooooooooot to learn!! (:-)

I freely acknowledge that, admittedly.  Of course I do know
the basics, and know where to find certain information --
e.g., halflife decay rates for isotopes.

> you are not even a beginner about
> nuclear and Atomic structure anyway
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> but it is not sure
> because you might fall into the end of the world

The original discovery of America was misattributed
to India; hence the term "Indian" for what we now call
Native Americans.

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> and it is probably India .....
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> i tmigh tbe a wonderful(endless !!) adventure fo ryou
> to find better knowledge ......

Yeah, well without predictive formulae to accompany your
structures, how on earth are they useful?  Your affairs
remind me of the "Smart Model", with the oxygen atom
showing up light a doughnut in his theory.

Admittedly, from a philosophical standpoint I would wish
for better methods than shooting at atoms with the atomic
equivalent of nuclear bombs (well, come to think of it,
the atoms *are* part of atomic bombs)...but that's the
best we can do, and the debris can be quite interesting,
and is routinely analyzed.

> ATB
> Y.Porat
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Eric Gisse - 27 May 2007 21:58 GMT
> This question appears in the problem supplement to the Feynman
> Lectures: "Can you explain why there are no crystals which have the shape
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> configuration', but that seems like begging the question.  Is there a
> geometrical explanation for this?

Ghost has given you the correct answer.

> --http://www.vho.org/GB/c/DC/gcgvcole.htmlhttp://www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/http://w
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The Ghost In The Machine - 27 May 2007 23:33 GMT
In sci.physics, Eric Gisse
<jowr.pi@gmail.com>
wrote
on 27 May 2007 13:58:55 -0700
<1180299535.063771.170210@q19g2000prn.googlegroups.com>:
>> This question appears in the problem supplement to the Feynman
>> Lectures: "Can you explain why there are no crystals which have the shape
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>
>> --http://www.vho.org/GB/c/DC/gcgvcole.htmlhttp://www.vho.org/GB/Books/dth/http://w
ww.germarrudolf.com/http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/051115chica
go.htm

There are, however, some interesting planar coverings if one is not
required to use a single shape.  The pentagon can tesselate if it
uses a rhombus in concert, for example; a heptagon can tesselate with a
pentagon, though the latter is not quite regular.  Of course one can
also cheat in a number of ways, by assembling shapes in a tesselable
geometry (box, triangle, hexagon) and repeating it; one can even get
creative and randomly rotate the shapes in some cases.

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/activityexchange/download_file.jsp?cid=U
S&fileurl=Math%2FGeometry%2F4600%2FGeoInvestigations_Voyage_Cabri_Act06.pdf


I'll admit I'm not sure why a pentagonal crystal cannot
fabricate itself from a seed, though (presumably that has
to do with atomic bonds and/or basic chemistry), but if
one assumes a grid of such seed crystals, there would have
to be gaps.

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Uncle Al - 27 May 2007 23:14 GMT
> This question appears in the problem supplement to the Feynman
> Lectures: "Can you explain why there are no crystals which have the shape
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> configuration', but that seems like begging the question.  Is there a
> geometrical explanation for this?

Quasicrystals.   Aperiodic lattices can diffract sharp spots with
10-fold symmetry.  The lattices are periodic in 5-D, then are
projected to 3-D.

http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/apps/quasitiler/

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