Soma

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Complex among the simple

SomaA Science Demonstration

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Piet HeinDanish scientist, mathematician, inventor,

designer, author, and poet.

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One day he had an idea during a lecture of Quantum physics by

Werner Heisenberg (Father of the un-certain principle).

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If you take all irregular shapes that can be formed by combining no more than four cubes, all the same size and joined at their faces. - These shapes can be combined to form a larger

cube.

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This was refined to consider all possible combinations of three or

four unit cubes, joined at their faces, such that at least one inside corner is

formed.

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You can make soma blocks by

gluing simple blocks

together. These have been made

with children’s

blocks.

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The pieces can be arranged in 240 different ways to make what Hein and his associates called the Soma

cube.

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Many complex shapes can be made with the

seven simple shapes of the soma cube such as a

crystal:

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The Knott

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The Bed

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The Bathtub

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All of these shapes and many more from just seven basic

shapes!

This reminds me of something that has a very big name.

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Deoxyribonucleic Acid

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Deoxyribonucleic Acid is better known as DNA. DNA is is the molecule that contains the genetic code for people,

animals, plants, and even bacteria.

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Though DNA is extremely complex in what is

accomplishes, it is a rather simple structure.

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DNA determines if we have blue eyes or brown eyes.

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DNA determines our skin and hair color, the shape of our noses, ear, and just

about everything else.

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Genetic information is encoded as a sequence of nucleotides (guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine) recorded using the

letters G, A, T, and C. So the genetic alphabet only has four letters but using

those four letters in unique combinations, God is able to make us and everyone unique (except identical twins which

though they have the exact DNA can still become very different people)!

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Can

cer

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earc

h U

K

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Using a very simple plan that has potential for tremendous diversity, God has “fearfully and wonderfully

made” us. (Psalm 139:14)

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Though our genetic makeup is set when we are conceived, our characters may be

developed into the character of Jesus Christ no matter who our parents are or what DNA

we have received. In the end, God will not ask us if we had brown eyes or black skin; he will

not ask us if we were tall or short, had big ears or little noses, but did we love him and

keep his commandments.

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his

commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into

judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” (Eccl. 12:12,

14)