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Um, the snowflakes were very similar in the photos, but pretty clearly not perfectly identical.
by cowardlydragon 11y ago
Um, the snowflakes were very similar in the photos, but pretty clearly not perfectly identical.
- Navarr 11y agoCorrect. No two snowflakes are identical. But two snowflakes can now be "alike" ;)
- TheTravCav 11y agoFrom the article, “I started calling them identical twins because they are like identical people,” he said. “They are too similar to just happen by chance, but not absolutely precisely identical to the last molecule.”
- chongli 11y agoThe problem with the term "perfectly identical" is that it's a weasel word that opens the door for endless moving of goalposts. Even if the physicist were to refine the process further and produce snowflakes with identical molecular configurations, you could argue that since they occupy different positions within space they are still different.