"Physicists generally believe that the laws of quantum physics imply that salt crystals
    are cubical, but nobody knows how to make this explicit. They don't know how to make
    the existence of _any_ crystalline structure explicit.

    from "The Collapse of Chaos" Profs. Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart
    ISBN 0-670-84983-9 (hc) 0-1401-7874-0 (pb)

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   "December 1984 .. discovery of a phase of an aluminum-manganese alloy which seemed indeed
    to be a crystalline-like substance - now referred to as a `quasicrystal' - with fivefold
    symmetry. In fact this quasicrystalline substance also exhibited a symmetry in _three_
    dimensions, and not only in the plane - giving a forbidden _icosahedral_ symmetry in all. 
    (Shechtman et al 1984)

    Now, a remarkable feature of the quasicrystalline tiling patterns ... is that their
    assembly is necessarily _non-local_. That is to say, in assembling the patterns, it is
    necessary, from time to time, to examine the state of the pattern many, many `atoms' away
    from the point of assembly...

    ... this implies that their assembly cannot reasonably be achieved by the local adding of
    atoms one at a time, in accordance with the classical picture of crystal growth, but
    instead there must be a nonlocal...ingredient to their assembly"

    from "The Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose
    ISBN 0-09-977170-5

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    "Perceptions" note:

    A non-local (i.e. universal & instantaneous) effect (or `force') is needed
    to make those crystals.

    Ha! Non-local forces, or even `effects' - although strongly indicated by
    quantum experiments [E.P.R & "Bell's Inequalities" & Aspect's Result] - are
    vainly being denied and forbidden by today's "science" - but despite this those
    crystals are made - by an instantaneous, universal force. 

    The same non-local force described at www.perceptions.couk.com/timeprob.html
    or "Why're Scientists Scared?"

    and
    www.perceptions.couk.com/UEFindex.html
    www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/abolish.html
    www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/crystal.html 
    www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/radiation.html
    www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/mass.html
    www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/magnetism.html
    www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/inside.html
    and other linked pages.

    We don't need to speculate about it - and neither does NASA or NESTA,
    since we told them about it!

    Maybe check
    www.perceptions.couk.com/footnotes2.html

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