W.hat do trees, bones, carp and eggs have in common? Its contour follows the universal shape of nature, it makes you stable and at the same time minimizes resistance in air and water.
Claus Mattheck, physics professor and specialist in biomechanics, discovers them in pebbles cut round by Bach and in a necklace lying on the table, at the ends of which you pull, but also where you hardly suspect it – in the antlers of the stag beetle, in the wing tips of the Dragonfly and healed wounds on the tree.
The brook pebble is the counterpart to the approach of the tree roots and the rods on the deer antlers, it fits into the curves. Mattheck has broken down their shape into rounded tension triangles, the triangle is the reason for the stability. Technology can learn from nature, so the tapering instead of the sharp edge prevents the screw head from twisting and the brook pebble shape prevents the vault from collapsing.
As usual with the author, at first glance the publication looks like a children’s book because he lets his protagonist Pauli tell stories, but inside, according to many examples, it is highly scientific. The book is based on research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
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