A deliciously Lovecraftian news item today. ‘Russian quasicrystal rock came from space‘…
A mysterious Russian rock made of a type of crystal never before seen outside a laboratory is most likely a meteorite from the early days of the solar system, geologists say. The first naturally occurring quasicrystals on Earth have been found among rock samples gathered from the remote Koryak Mountains in the far-east of Siberia. Researcher Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University describes such a bizarre arrangement as “a disharmony in space. Any symmetry thought to be forbidden is possible for quasicrystals,” he told Space.com.