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Paul Steinhardt, “Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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How to Make a Quasa Crystal?

In principle, you could never do better than making something like highly disordered pattern. And then you might as well think of it as an icosaito glass. So we kept adding to the rlly av these things. We'd write down say, whenever this configuration comes up, don't do that. Ok? Then you tried that ruled. Now youad the penrose rules plus that rule. You co again. And now you go a little bit further. But yo, run into another problem. O, stare at it again. A so a, then two interesting things happened. First, on the theoretical front, a group of us sat down with penros ly, with pen

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