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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up

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A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up

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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up | Quanta Magazine

www.quantamagazine.org

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.

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quick, tie it to the back of a cat and drop them both together. you’ll get your perpetual motion spinning device then.

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