The Shape of Hidden Order: What Quasicrystals Reveal About Reality
- nvtvptpenrose
- Oct 23
- 3 min read
Most people have never heard of them. Quasicrystals are strange materials that break the rules of matter; may be one of the biggest clues we have about how reality really works. In 1982, a scientist named Dan Shechtman discovered something that wasn’t supposed to exist. He was studying metal alloys under an electron microscope when he noticed something impossible: an atomic pattern that was ordered, but never repeated.
