upload.wikimedia.org— Low temperature SEM magnification series for a snow crystal. Really cool, has 8 images of a snow crystal continually zoomed in until 36000x
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Short hint: the variation for N is sqrt(N), relative variation is 1/sqrt(N). N being in the order of magnitude of 10^15-10^20 makes this relative number very small. Uniform temperature and humidity conditions on the scale of size of the snowflake lead to exactly the same speed of precipitation of snow. Those two things lead to similarity in shape of different beams of snowflake. Nicht sprachen "me" to "myself"...
My goodness. Why does every science article on digg provoke an evolution debate? Even the ones that are relatively far removed from the debate? And why does the debate even continue here? No one on either side is going to convince the other side. It is just two completely different ways of looking at the world.
ahmedbDec 13, 2006
The symmetry and beauty in these flakes is priceless!!!!! Just shows you that the earth and environment are not 'random'.
mapkinaseDec 13, 2006
Short hint: the variation for N is sqrt(N), relative variation is 1/sqrt(N). N being in the order of magnitude of 10^15-10^20 makes this relative number very small. Uniform temperature and humidity conditions on the scale of size of the snowflake lead to exactly the same speed of precipitation of snow. Those two things lead to similarity in shape of different beams of snowflake. Nicht sprachen "me" to "myself"...
zippoDec 13, 2006
Amazing how science and nature work, isn't it?
hubajubeDec 13, 2006
@TeaboyHere's one solution--super glue:<a class="user" href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/e5fb1e4e0fca9010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html">http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/e5fb1e4e0fca9010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html</a>I imagine that for deep-zoom photographs like the ones in the FPP they'd just shoot at
kingleoDec 13, 2006
God is truly an amazing artist.
Closed AccountDec 13, 2006
your definition of random is wrong
misselliot1978Dec 13, 2006
My goodness. Why does every science article on digg provoke an evolution debate? Even the ones that are relatively far removed from the debate? And why does the debate even continue here? No one on either side is going to convince the other side. It is just two completely different ways of looking at the world.
cockmasterDec 13, 2006
i think you're trying to push buttons, but a line like that speaks volumes about the simple way you view things.
djosephdesignDec 13, 2006
Anyone aware of a TIFF edition of this?
jeffboyarediDec 15, 2006
The Caltech prof is the one who took the pics for this year's US stamps:<a class="user" href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/yxvlvs">http://preview.tinyurl.com/yxvlvs</a>I just heard talk about it in this podcast...kind of cool:<a class="user" href="http://www.wsst.org/labtable.asp?newsID=246#1">http://www.wsst.org/labtable.asp?newsID=246#1</a>