A mysterious design that appears across millennia | Terry Moore
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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What can we make of a design that shows up over and over in disparate cultures throughout history? Theorist Terry Moore explores "Penrose tiling" -- two shapes that fit together in infinite combinations without ever repeating -- and ponders what it might mean.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:11.0 | It's Ted Talks Daily. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:13.7 | You're about to hear one of my personal favorite talks from Ted 2023. |
| 0:17.8 | It's from thinker and author Terry Moore. |
| 0:20.9 | He tells us what ancient tile patterns, yes, tile patterns, have to teach us about life |
| 0:28.1 | after the break. |
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| 0:57.1 | This is Roger Penrose, certainly one of the great scientists of our time. |
| 1:02.1 | Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work reconciling black holes with Einstein's |
| 1:09.1 | general theory of relativity. |
| 1:11.1 | But back in the 1970s, Roger Penrose made a contribution to the world of mathematics, |
| 1:17.1 | and that part of mathematics known as tiling. |
| 1:21.1 | You know, tiling the process of putting tiles together so that they form a particular pattern. |
| 1:28.1 | The thing that was remarkable about the pattern that Roger Penrose developed is that, |
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