Hey! Scientist found a new shape!

Scientists eh?


Must be Fake News... [/sarcasm]

 

Far out!

My favorite shape is the tesseract. I've been a big fan of it ever since reading Heinlein's "-And He Built A Crooked House-".

 

That looks like some crystals I've seen...maybe.

 

That is what we call in Latin, a, Rhomboidhexegus motherfucker.

 

Ny favorite shapes are the Mobius strip and Klein’s Bottle since reading Star Bright written by Marc Clifton

 

So how is it new if its been in skin cells for probably like a billion years?

 

It's also what one of the Infinity stones was kept in

Spoiler

until asshole Thanos crushed the Tesseract and took it

 

Yes, like when a "new" planet is discovered.

 

On your mom!

 

Oh geez thats hilarious!
I wonder how much funding they had for that research?

 

That’s cool. I wonder if it can lead to developing new vaccines and cures for diseases that might not have had a cure.

 

What a neat little piece of news!

 

Awesome! It is all out there waiting for us to discover it..I bet every shape anyone can imagine exists somewhere..

 

Makes you wonder though.

All the money thrown into cancer research, all the money, resources, people studying biology the world over over the the last 100 years. And yet we only "discover" this shape, this year, from skin cells of beetles

????

Puts into perspective what shit we still dont know

 

Did scientists discover a new shape? Well, first we have to define ‘shape.’ Also, ‘new.’
A cool scientific finding and a strange semantic investigation.
by Sara Chodosh
August 1, 2018

Did scientists discover a new shape? Well, first we have to define ‘shape.’ Also, ‘new.’

excerpts:

"So is this shape really new? “It depends what you mean,” he says. “If by ‘new’ you mean that it didn't exist before (like a new model of car), then the answer is ‘no,’ of course. What they mean by "new" is a shape that has never been mathematically described and studied.” It’s possible, of course, that someone else in some other discipline has described and studied the scutoid. Gursky notes that what’s new in one field can be well-known in another. “The same equations that describe the shape of soap bubbles also describe the shape of black holes, for example.”

To me, it makes no sense to say that something is “new” if you just happened to be the first person to describe it. I realize that by that argument there are no new species (barring those that evolve into distinct, previously nonexistent species)—there are only newly discovered species. To that I say: yes. I think that finding out about a frog that you didn’t know about before doesn’t make it new—it just makes it new to you.'


"All of this describing and naming only matters, though, if there is some larger issue at stake. “In the abstract, there may not be much to say about these particular shapes,” says Burt Totaro, a professor of mathematics at UCLA, “but the authors do have a point to make.” In a biological context like the epithelium, he notes, “it's not good enough to think of cells as having a simpler geometric shape such as a prism or frustum (a slice of a cone). The outer surface and the inner surface of the cell are typically being squeezed in different directions, and so more complicated shapes arise inevitably.” If you’re interested in modeling how biological membranes work, then, you need to find a way to mathematically describe this “new” “shape,” and it’s pretty convenient to give it a name as well.

So, yes, as Buceta himself confirmed, the scutoid shape clearly already existed. In that sense it’s not “new.” And maybe it’s not even what some mathematicians would call a “shape.” But for the purposes of talking about mathematical descriptions of a three-dimensional object that’s suddenly become biologically relevant, let’s call it a new shape. Welcome to the world, little buddy."

 

.....or there were 10,000 guys the world over in the last 100 years that looked at these exact same skin cells under a microscope.

And didnt even notice because they werent actually interested or smart enough, jyst focused on getting some lame paper out to see relevant and hang on to their jobs.

This one is a weird one, you telling me NO ONE noticed the shape of these cells until 2018???