Could science actually confirm Plato’s theory that the Earth is made of cubes?
New research shows a Platonic ideal may be true after all: The world may primarily break into cubes, and not just in Minecraft. In a new paper, researchers from the U.S. and Hungary go through a simulation of the world’s “natural 3D fragments” and find that, indeed, most do conform to a cube-like form factor.
For more, check out this Yahoo Science story.