A 50-year-old mystery in Conway’s Game of Life has just been solved Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille There exists a finite pattern that forces itself to occur entirely in each of its preimages. It’s this one (surrounded by gray cells): A 50-year-old mystery in Conway's Game of Life has just been solved. A pattern has been discovered that cannot be generated by anything except for itself — there's no way to procedurally build it within the ruleset.https://t.co/tahlUiD0u5 pic.twitter.com/RaWzGQ7aos— ππππ πΏπππππ (@StanRockPatton) January 14, 2022