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SUBMITTER: Neyrinck MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5936902 | biostudies-other | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Royal Society open science 20180425 4
For over 20 years, the term 'cosmic web' has guided our understanding of the large-scale arrangement of matter in the cosmos, accurately evoking the concept of a network of galaxies linked by filaments. But the physical correspondence between the cosmic web and structural engineering or textile 'spiderwebs' is even deeper than previously known, and also extends to origami tessellations. Here, we explain that in a good structure-formation approximation known as the adhesion model, threads of the ...[more]