Eric Weinstein
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If you put those two in, he's going to go into a different world.
Now, how would you generate... So Neil doesn't know where this comes from, right?
Now, the way in which you would do this, I believe, is that you would take a... Let me think about how you'd do this.
you take the eight, eight, no, no, no.
You take the eight vertices of a cube and you'd put a sphere at each one, small sphere.
So imagine that you had a vertex at 1, 1, 1 in three-dimensional space, and then you had another vertex where all of the vertices are going to have either 1s or negative 1s.
So you have eight possibilities.
So you could have negative 1, 1, 1, or 1, negative 1, negative 1, et cetera.
You allow those spheres to increase to a size of square root of 2 radius.
And that will close off all of the means of escape, leaving a cavity in the center of your cube.
And that cube will have an octahedral cavity that looks like this.
That's how I think you generated this stuff.
Yeah.
So you're putting a lot of words
Like, first of all, let's just admit that this looks gorgeous.
So, you know, the problem, Terrence, is that you have a desire to go immediately towards what this means, right?
And before you get to what it means, people don't even know what it is.
True.
Right?
So what I'm going to claim is I've got these eight ramboutons here.