Die 7 Kristallsysteme

Abstract

When a strange monolith first appears on the plains of Africa in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the “Dawn of Man” begins. Cocreator Arthur C. Clarke describes the moment in this way: After having touched the monolith, a barely conscious reaction occurs in the leader’s mind. As he looks out now upon the hostile world, there is already something in his gaze beyond the capacity of any ape. In those dark, deep-set eyes is a dawning of awareness—the first intimations of an intelligence, which would not fulfill itself for another four million years.¹ It is important to note