Has the Einstein Problem finally been solved? For decades, mathematicians, logicians and professional puzzlers have tried to find the existence of a single tile that by itself scales to infinity without ever repeating it’s pattern. Was 2023 the year this illusive shape was found…

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I think Scientists are Rockstars so I made t-shirts to celebrate it
Einstein Rockstar Tee: https://www.drbenmiles.com/merch/p/ro…
Curie Rockstar Tee: https://www.drbenmiles.com/merch/p/ro…
Schrodinger Rockstar Tee: https://www.drbenmiles.com/merch/p/ro…

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Chapters:
0:00 Can A Single Shape Infinitely Tile?
0:52 Regular Tessellating Polygons
3:45 Introducing Irregular Shapes To The Problem
4:23 Non-Periodic and Aperiodic Tiling
5:56 Wang Tiles
7:16 Penrose Tiles
8:35 David Smith and the Aperiodic Monotile, The Hat
10:45 The ‘Impossible’ Shape – The Spectre
11:59 5 Fold Symmetry In The Real World. Dan Shechtman & Quasicrystals

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