[extropy-chat] Was the Big Bang Dodecahedral?

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From: "Terry W. Colvin"

> Some 2,500 years ago, sans WMAP, Timaeus of Locri, noting the *mystical*
> correspondence between the four "elements* of nature (fire, air, earth,
> and water) and the four other regular solids (tetrahedron, cube, 
> octahedron, and icosahedron), ventured that the remaining fifth regular 
> solid, the dodecahedron, *must* envelope the universe.
> (Giomini, Claudio; "Timaeus's Insight on the Shape of the Universe,"
> *Nature*, 425:899, 2003)

Plato wrote (Timaeus, 55)
about the dodecahedron:
"There was yet a fifth combination
which God used in the delineation
of the universe."

But Plato forgot to mention that God
used dodecahedra in constructing
quantum reality, as sir Penrose
showed some years ago.
http://users.wpi.edu/~paravind/penrosedodec.pdf