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  Physics From Conception to Kamchatka [long_description] In the early 1980s, scientists were astounded to discover a new phase of matter, the quasicrystal—a material that exhibits internal symmetries incompatible with a regularly repeating pattern. In The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter, Paul Steinhardt recounts his first encounters with quasicrystals and his decades-long search for a naturally formed example.

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