Scientists Have Discovered an Entirely New Shape, And It Was Hiding in Your Cells

Skin is your largest organ. There are about 2 square metres (22 square feet) of it enveloping you right now, and it’s not the shape we thought it was.

In fact, scientists have just discovered an entirely new geometric shape previously unknown to science or mathematics, and it looks like it’s been hiding in your skin all along. By which we mean, in epithelial cells, the building blocks of the structural tissue forming our external (and internal) skin layers.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Scientists Have Discovered an Entirely New Shape, And It Was Hiding in Your Cells

Skin is your largest organ. There are about 2 square metres (22 square feet) of it enveloping you right now, and it’s not the shape we thought it was.

In fact, scientists have just discovered an entirely new geometric shape previously unknown to science or mathematics, and it looks like it’s been hiding in your skin all along. By which we mean, in epithelial cells, the building blocks of the structural tissue forming our external (and internal) skin layers.

more…

Looks familiar.

It’s quite interesting, but I wish they’d dispense with the gee-wiz bullshit.

We had a thread about this before.

https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/10101/

Oh, wait. I was the only one who contributed to it. :-(

By the way, they’re wrong. That shape won’t pack space. But it’s sure to be present every now and again amongst randomly packed spheres/cells.