986.150 Consideration 5: Closest Packing of Spheres

986.151 I had thus identified the isotropic vector matrix with the uniform linear distances between the centers of unit radius spheres, which aggregates became known laterin 1922as “closest-packed” unit-radius spheres (Sec. 410.07), a condition within which we always have the same optimum number of the same “somethings”spheres or maybe atomsper given volume, and an optimally most stable and efficient aggregating arrangement known for past centuries by stackers of unit-radius coconuts or cannonballs and used by nature for all time in the closest packing of unit-radius atoms in crystals.