Atoms are spherical.
An innovative solution to building a spherical house. (dedicated to the people of Haiti and Kentucky).
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The sphere has been scientifically acknowledged to be the best structural defense against Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Tornadoes.
But before we give you our secrets, you will have to listen to a litany of finely finished words fashioned and arrayed in a manner designed to articulate in you the desire to acquire.
At the end of that we will dangle real deals in your face, which you can, by means of a time locked discount, be able to buy at a ridiculously low price.
JUST KIDDING.
—Electrons are perfectly spherical
—The nucleus exerts equal force on each electron. The electrons arrange in a sphere so that they all remain equidistant from the nucleus.
My interest in spherical houses jumped from the aesthetic to the practical when I learned about its structural stability. This I understand comes from the fact that a sphere distributes any stress it receives evenly throughout the whole surface.
The recent Haitian earthquake brought me back to the functional aspect of the process. I knew how to build a sphere with ferro cement. 3D printers are also doing it. But I wanted a process that someone with little resources could use to build a house for their family that was safe from Earthquakes.
The question for google was: how to divide up a sphere into equal units? An Astrophysicist had a site in which that question was answered. He used it as a grid to observe the universe. However, we seemed to speak different languages and I could not take out anything of value from his mathematical equations.
Now that I knew it was possible I decided to ask the help of a brilliant computer modeler, who could understand the math.
I had written the email, but had not sent it off, when on a Toronto Streetcar, the whole solution came up. It was so simple.