We study sets of tubes in R³, with the property that not too many tubes can be contained inside a common convex set V. We show that the union of tubes from such a set must have almost maximal volume. As a consequence, we prove that every Kakeya set in R³ has Minkowski and Hausdorff dimension 3.
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