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Date Posted: 23:53:21 05/01/02 Wed
Author: No name
Subject: Re: Four Elements
In reply to: algorithm 's message, "Four Elements" on 14:55:23 04/30/02 Tue

>Incidentally, while there are more than four elements,
>there are only four elementary forces in
>the universe: electromagnetic, gravitational, and the
>strong and weak nuclear forces. They can even be
>easily equated to the meanings of the original four
>elements:
>
>Electromagnetic <---> Fire
>Gravitational <---> Earth
>Strong Nuclear <---> Water
>Weak Nuclear <---> Air
>
>Coincidence... or conspiracy?

That is a very interesting observation (and it is very nifty), but actually the Greeks believed that there was a fifth element, ether, which is what the stars and other heavenly bodies were made of. The five elements were equted with the five platonic solids (being the only regular polyhedrons) as follows:

Tetrahedron <---> Fire
Cube <---> Earth
Icosahedron <---> Water
Octahedron <---> Air
Dodecahedron <---> Ether

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