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The perfect symmetries of snowflakes always struck me as being strange: how do the molecules at one edge of the flake know what their symmetrical partner at oth
by herodotus 6y ago
The perfect symmetries of snowflakes always struck me as being strange: how do the molecules at one edge of the flake know what their symmetrical partner at other edge is doing? It is interesting to see that the symmetries are not perfect, making it (somewhat) easier to accept.
- whatshisface 6y ago>how do the molecules at one edge of the flake know what their symmetrical partner at other edge is doing? Both sides are independently executing the same physical process to arrive at the same results.