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Platonic solids were once thought to build reality

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Ancient thinkers were so obsessed with symmetrical 3D shapes they assumed fire, water, and earth were just microscopic triangles and cubes. It was an incredibly elegant way to be completely wrong about molecular physics.

Platonic solids were once thought to build reality
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