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Michael Albert <albertm@uphs.upenn.edu> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.58.0409162054060.12083@naomi.uphs.upenn.edu>...
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Hoshatan Luke wrote:
> > He said, 'We must have a universe of light and darkness, 
> > particles and empty space, locations with matter having 
> > some properties, locations with matter having other 
> > properties, places with order, places with chaos'. 
> > 
> > I didn't want anything to do with it.
> > 
> > Nonetheless, he said to me, 'Oh, come, come now.  You can't 
> > resist a good game of dice.'
> 
> Oh good!  Perhaps you might be able a question that's been
> bugging me.  Most of the elements, when pure solids,
> have simple crystal structures.  For examples, the metals are almost
> all either FCC or a variant of HCP, and most of the others are still 
> simple things like BCC.
> 
> However, elemental boron has a most spectacular crystal structure, 
> e.g. http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/B/xtal.html.
> Was it a slow day so the Deity decided to have a little fun?  Was
> this planned?  Was this an unforseen consequence of something else?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Mike

I've wondered a similar thing;  before God settled on the current
kinetic model of atoms and molecules as the principle structure of
things, did he ever toy with the idea of creating a more Aristotelean
universe?

Dave