Why Snow Flakes... ?

Updated to share this more
thorough article:

[link to www.filefactory.com]

Enjoy!

Scientists have only recently been able
to reproduce these intricate formations
of water molecules in the laboratory...

From: [link to www.scientificamerican.com]

"Despite the new advances in modeling snowflake growth, Libbrecht says, the fundamental mystery about snowflakes—how they form in the first place — is still far from solved. To understand how they grow, “we have to marry the mathematics with the physics, and that’s not been done, partly because we don’t know the right physics,” he says."

So, we can make them but have yet to
"... marry the mathematics with the
physics..." of the water molecule.

To me, this hints that there is some other
energy involved not being accounted for,
at the microscopic level.

Snowflakes form in a wide variety of
shapes, not all hexagonal. In fact, the
vast majority fall as irregular 'clumps'
(according to [link to www.its.caltech.edu] )
My interest is with those that have symmetry
and are either planar or radial in nature.

The lack of depth in the growth of the
radial type is another clue to the nature
of the energy not being taken into account.

We know spheres will inherently pack
themselves in a certain way to reduce
the gaps between them, as do their two
dimensional cousins, circles. So, when
7 circles are packed thus:

[link to csidemedia.com] (from: [link to csidemedia.com]

it's the logical way they'll organise.

So, as these structures grow, why don't the
flakes grow, or accrete matter, in a more
robust, three dimensional array?

Now, if the initial 'seed' crystal (molecule?)
is spinning, any 'cling ons' will be
forced to accrete at the spinning seeds
equator.

As Libbrecht suggests later in the first
article I've quoted:

"... some of the missing physics may be related to a previously overlooked instability in the changing shape of ice crystals. Libbrecht has urged Garcke to incorporate the proposed instability, which transforms thick prismlike snow crystals into thin plates, in the team’s simulations. Garcke says he and his colleagues are now considering doing so, although he believes other effects may be more important."

Perhaps the "instability" Libbrecht
suggests can be accounted for by some
sort of vorticular energy being imparted
to the seed. Now I know falling objects
tend to tumble or spin, but I doubt there's
sufficient energies involved for this to
account for it, otherwise the physicists
would most likely have ‘married’ the math
to the physical already.

Interestingly, the hollow hexagonal type of
snow 'crystals' (definitely not 'flakes')
shown at the above CalTech website,
have a pair of inward pointing ‘conical
cavities’ (created by counter rotating
vortices?) which appear to have grown in
an axial manner, instead of planar, around
the vortices themselves. Capice?

In the series "Rise to the Equation",
Nassim Haramein mentions water, in a plasma
state, spinning in micro-vortexes, so perhaps
this compliments his theories relating to the
space-time field?



More constructive input most welcome!



Last Edited by fellowearthling on 11/02/2012 02:14 AM