1 Complex among the simple Soma A Science Demonstration

2 Piet Hein Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet.

3 One day he had an idea during a lecture of Quantum physics by Werner Heisenberg (Father of the un-certain principle).

4 If you take all irregular shapes that can be formed by combining no more than four cubes, all the same size and joined at their faces. - These shapes can be combined to form a larger cube.

5 This was refined to consider all possible combinations of three or four unit cubes, joined at their faces, such that at least one inside corner is formed.

6 You can make soma blocks by gluing simple blocks together. These have been made with children’s blocks.

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8 The pieces can be arranged in 240 different ways to make what Hein and his associates called the Soma cube.

9 Many complex shapes can be made with the seven simple shapes of the soma cube such as a crystal:

10 The Knott

11 The Bed

12 The Bathtub

13 All of these shapes and many more from just seven basic shapes! This reminds me of something that has a very big name.

14 Deoxyribonucleic Acid

15 Deoxyribonucleic Acid is better known as DNA. DNA is is the molecule that contains the genetic code for people, animals, plants, and even bacteria.

16 Though DNA is extremely complex in what is accomplishes, it is a rather simple structure.

17 DNA determines if we have blue eyes or brown eyes.

18 DNA determines our skin and hair color, the shape of our noses, ear, and just about everything else.

19 Genetic information is encoded as a sequence of nucleotides (guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine) recorded using the letters G, A, T, and C. So the genetic alphabet only has four letters but using those four letters in unique combinations, God is able to make us and everyone unique (except identical twins which though they have the exact DNA can still become very different people)!

20 Cancer Research UK

21 Using a very simple plan that has potential for tremendous diversity, God has “fearfully and wonderfully made” us. (Psalm 139:14)

22 Though our genetic makeup is set when we are conceived, our characters may be developed into the character of Jesus Christ no matter who our parents are or what DNA we have received. In the end, God will not ask us if we had brown eyes or black skin; he will not ask us if we were tall or short, had big ears or little noses, but did we love him and keep his commandments. “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” (Eccl. 12:12, 14)