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T O P I C R E V I E WlotusheartoneIs Every Single Snowflake DifferentIs it true that no two snowflakes are alike?Of course, the question would be laid to rest issomeone could succeed in observing two identicalflakes. The person who had the best opportunity fordoing this was Wilson A. Bentley of Jericho, Vermont.Bentley was a farmer and amateur meteorologist. For 50years, he dedicated himself to studying flakes ofsnow.Wilson Bentley was born in 1865 near Jericho. He hadalmost no formal schooling, but his mother had been ateacher and he acquired from her a lively curiosityand a love for nature's minutiae. Drops of water, bitsof stone, or a bird's feather equally excited hisinterest. But is was snow that became his lifelongpassion.On his 15th birthday, Bentley's mother gave him an oldmicroscope. It was snowing that day, and the boysucceeded in getting a glimpse of a six-sidedsnowflake with the instrument. By the age of 20, hehad perfected a technique for photographing flakes ofsnow. At the time of his death, Wilson Bentley hadaccumulated nearly 5,000 microphotographs of snowcrystals and had been recognized worldwide as anexpert on the meteorology of snow. In his ownneighborhood, he was known simply as the "SnowflakeMan."Now back to the orginal question. Bentley surmisedthat no two snowflakes in his collection were alike.That fact was a source of great satisfaction to him.In the simple snowflake, he stood face-to-face withone of nature's deepest mysteries, what the Greekscalled "the problem of the One and the Many":How doesany form endure in the face of almost limitlesspossibility? The snowflake exemplified for Bentley thekaleidoscopic balance of order and disorder that isthe basis of beauty in nature and in art.Twentieth-century physics has made substantialprogress toward understanding the genesis of thesnowflake's form. The hexagonal symmetry of snowflakeshas its origin in the shape of the water moleculeconsists of an atom of oxygen and two atoms ofhydrogen. The hydrogen atoms are connected to theoxygen in such a way that the two hydrogen "arms" makean angle like the arms on the side of this X. Theangle of the arms ensures that when water moleculeslink to form a crystal, the resultant symmetry will behexagonal, just as the placement of the holes in theknobs of a Tinkertoy set determines the symmetry ofthe structures that can be built with the set.Now we turn to the probabilities of combination. Adeck of 52 cards can be shuffled into 10 68 differentcombinations. A small Tinkertoy set may have a hundredpieces; consider, if you will, the huge number ofdifferent structures that could be built with such aset. A single snow crystal consists of some 10 18(1quintillion) molecules of water! The number of ways somany molecules can be arranged into six-sided cystalsis infinite--vastly larger than the number of singlesnowflakes that have ever landed on the face of Earth.The odds are great indeed that no two flakes have everbeen exactly identical!Science has revealed another surprising aspect of thesnowflakes form. The apparent stability of a crystalif ice is an illusion. on the atomic scale, thesnowflake is a hub-bub of activity. Electrons leap anddance. Molecules furiously wave their hydrogen arms.Crystal imperfections jump from place to place. If youcould shrink to subatomic size and enter a crystal ofice, you would find yourself caught in a hurricane ofchaos, nature constructs and maintains a crystallinearchitecture of delicate beauty.So what is the answer? In one sense, no two snowflakesare alike; in another sense, all snowfales are alike.The staggering diversity of snowflakes is a measure ofnature's potential for novelty and change. Theconstancy of the snowflake's six-sided form reassuresus that nature is ruled by law.Wilson Bentley once wrote, "The farm folks up in thisNorth Country dread the winter, but I was alwayssupremely happy, from the day of the firstsnowfall--which usually came in November--until thelast one, which sometimes came as late as May." Forthe "Snowflake Man," snow was a lifelong lesson in theway nature's beauty arises from a delicate balance oflaw and chaos, fixity and change.--Chet RaymoThe Old Farmer's Almanac-Guide to Watching the WeatherI was packing, and came across this 2001 guide, itfell open to the page with this story.LOve and Magic!silverstoneLotus lotusheartoneSilverstone, know lotusheartoneLyricsIsrael"Little orphans in the snowWith nowhere to call a homeStart their singingWaiting through the summertimeTo thaw your hearts in wintertimeThat's why they're singing...Waiting for a sign to turn blood into wineThe sweet taste in your mouth--turned bitter in its glassIsrael...in IsraelIsrael...in IsraelShattered fragments of the pastMeet in veins on the stained glassLike the lifeline in your palmRed and green reflects the sceneOf a long forgotten dreamThere were princes and there were kingsNow hidden in disguise--cheap wrappings of liesKeep your heart alive with a song from insideEven though we're all aloneWe are never on our own when we're singingThere's a man who's looking inAnd he smiles a toothless grinBecause he's singing...See some people shine with gleeBut their song is jealousyTheir hate is clanging--maddeningIn Israel...will they sing Happy NoelIsrael...in IsraelIsrael...in IsraelIn Israel will they sing Happy Noel"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NOEL lexiLO, ONE LONE EL MirandeeThanks, Lotus That's very interesting. I found a site where this person ( actually from my home state, Michigan ) photographs snowflakes. Michigan in winter gives him lots to photograph. Anyway he has pictures of both symmetric and non-symmetric snowflakes. Very pretty to look at. http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/snowflakes/flake_thumbs.htm Each of Us a Snowflakeby Emily WarburtonEach of us a Snowflake We are each of us a snowflakenot two of us the sameReflections of the endless lovingSource from which we cameUnique in form and beautyCrystalized at birthLittle flecks of heavenborn to melt into the earthWe are each of us a snowflakeof infinate designTransitory dancerson the window panes of timeUnique in form and beautyNo two of us the sameReflections of the endless loving Source from which we cameWe are each of us a snowflakea falling star in flightA travler through the universein search of our own lightUnique in form and beautyNo two of one designTransitory dancerson the window pane of time.Snowflakes by Anna MacPherson Each one comes in a different lightA different reason a different nightThe brightest thing you'll ever knowLove for them will forever growEvery one has a different faceEach of them their own special graceIt's in our lives they frolic and singJust to see them alive is a beautiful thingThey bring us joy they give us lovethey're a beautiful creation from God aboveThey laugh they play, make us smile and gleamLet's walk amongst them and share their dreamA sparkling snowflake is truly uniqueIts your understanding they wish to seekOpen your hands and soon you'll seeWhat beautiful people these snowflakes can be Beautiful as they are they are no fun to shovel. lotusheartoneMirandee, Thanks so much, for the link(so amazing to look at snowflakes), and read the POems! Wonder Land!Love and Magic!sesameAs two knowflakes are never alike (unless they use psudonyms - but then their numerology changes (maybe) well, at least their lexigram changes unless it was a palindrome, but I digress), and no two drops fall in the same place. Great stuff! Gotta love the beauty of Chaos. Ever seen Mandel broch (sp?) curves? I've never really seen snow in the flesh, still looking forawrd to it.Dean.------------------I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.Sue Monk Kidd, "The Secret Life of Bees", p79Logically Magical Logic is Magically Logical Magic! (and vice versa!)Numerology ProgramListensToTreesWhat about Twin Elf Snowflakes? Lotus I have a magazine clipping about snowflakes and the man who photographed them on my notice board. lotusheartoneHi Dean!You've never seen snow? Oh my, it's amazing, forming a crystal palace, all around you, as it falls. Mandel broch curves?? I'll have to look that up, curves, everything spherical, is good in the Universal Laws, the way life is formed, and spirals. Here on Earth we have square foundations causing angles and dark corners, kinda goes against the laws of nature, heheListensToTrees, you have a clipping on your notice board, hehe, signs everywhere..TwinSouls, Other Half, no two snowflakes are the same, but they are alike, and all form from the 6 of LOve, woo-hoo! Oh and the Light of One, WOW!LOve and Magic!ListensToTreesI think that Linda drew snowflakes in the sketch in Gooberz regarding the Twin S-elf concept. I'll check later. I'm pretty sure she did.I'm just not sure whether we are all unique in ourselves, being soul mates to each other but actual half to no other.......or whether we were Originally created, in soul, as two halves from One...... I'm going to bed later alligator, love and moonlight lotusheartone~~~ "you are meandI am youwe are eternally One .. and eternally Twowhich encircles us within the magic ThreeOf the Holy Trinityof Miracles... do you see?"then our eyes lockedin a deep, deep knowingwe touched nosesand whisperedMagic!~~ *MAGIC * MAGIC * MAGIC * magic * magic * magic * magic *!page 1080 of Gooberzmy thoughts...In Heaven we are 2 and 1 encircledthis circleto become humanwas split in twomale and female human formdestined through time and spaceto find One another and becomewhole, through Mastership. ...This is the time that Linda wrote about,when Twin Souls (your Other Half)will find each Other, and bring Heavenon Earth..That Isis and Osiris find One anotherfor they are the MOther and Father ofthis last Creation, and have gone bymany different names. ...2in1NOW! WON!LOve and Magic!lotusheartone sunshine9 I love snowflakes...!!!SunshineEmeraldopal ------------------All my love, with all my HeartlotusheartoneEmeraldopaland for him... ------------------All my love, with all my Heartlotusheartoneballerina ------------------All my love, with all my Heartlotusheartone/Emeraldopal
Is it true that no two snowflakes are alike?Of course, the question would be laid to rest issomeone could succeed in observing two identicalflakes. The person who had the best opportunity fordoing this was Wilson A. Bentley of Jericho, Vermont.Bentley was a farmer and amateur meteorologist. For 50years, he dedicated himself to studying flakes ofsnow.Wilson Bentley was born in 1865 near Jericho. He hadalmost no formal schooling, but his mother had been ateacher and he acquired from her a lively curiosityand a love for nature's minutiae. Drops of water, bitsof stone, or a bird's feather equally excited hisinterest. But is was snow that became his lifelongpassion.On his 15th birthday, Bentley's mother gave him an oldmicroscope. It was snowing that day, and the boysucceeded in getting a glimpse of a six-sidedsnowflake with the instrument. By the age of 20, hehad perfected a technique for photographing flakes ofsnow. At the time of his death, Wilson Bentley hadaccumulated nearly 5,000 microphotographs of snowcrystals and had been recognized worldwide as anexpert on the meteorology of snow. In his ownneighborhood, he was known simply as the "SnowflakeMan."Now back to the orginal question. Bentley surmisedthat no two snowflakes in his collection were alike.That fact was a source of great satisfaction to him.In the simple snowflake, he stood face-to-face withone of nature's deepest mysteries, what the Greekscalled "the problem of the One and the Many":How doesany form endure in the face of almost limitlesspossibility? The snowflake exemplified for Bentley thekaleidoscopic balance of order and disorder that isthe basis of beauty in nature and in art.Twentieth-century physics has made substantialprogress toward understanding the genesis of thesnowflake's form. The hexagonal symmetry of snowflakeshas its origin in the shape of the water moleculeconsists of an atom of oxygen and two atoms ofhydrogen. The hydrogen atoms are connected to theoxygen in such a way that the two hydrogen "arms" makean angle like the arms on the side of this X. Theangle of the arms ensures that when water moleculeslink to form a crystal, the resultant symmetry will behexagonal, just as the placement of the holes in theknobs of a Tinkertoy set determines the symmetry ofthe structures that can be built with the set.Now we turn to the probabilities of combination. Adeck of 52 cards can be shuffled into 10 68 differentcombinations. A small Tinkertoy set may have a hundredpieces; consider, if you will, the huge number ofdifferent structures that could be built with such aset. A single snow crystal consists of some 10 18(1quintillion) molecules of water! The number of ways somany molecules can be arranged into six-sided cystalsis infinite--vastly larger than the number of singlesnowflakes that have ever landed on the face of Earth.The odds are great indeed that no two flakes have everbeen exactly identical!Science has revealed another surprising aspect of thesnowflakes form. The apparent stability of a crystalif ice is an illusion. on the atomic scale, thesnowflake is a hub-bub of activity. Electrons leap anddance. Molecules furiously wave their hydrogen arms.Crystal imperfections jump from place to place. If youcould shrink to subatomic size and enter a crystal ofice, you would find yourself caught in a hurricane ofchaos, nature constructs and maintains a crystallinearchitecture of delicate beauty.So what is the answer? In one sense, no two snowflakesare alike; in another sense, all snowfales are alike.The staggering diversity of snowflakes is a measure ofnature's potential for novelty and change. Theconstancy of the snowflake's six-sided form reassuresus that nature is ruled by law.Wilson Bentley once wrote, "The farm folks up in thisNorth Country dread the winter, but I was alwayssupremely happy, from the day of the firstsnowfall--which usually came in November--until thelast one, which sometimes came as late as May." Forthe "Snowflake Man," snow was a lifelong lesson in theway nature's beauty arises from a delicate balance oflaw and chaos, fixity and change.--Chet RaymoThe Old Farmer's Almanac-Guide to Watching the Weather
I was packing, and came across this 2001 guide, itfell open to the page with this story.
LOve and Magic!
"Little orphans in the snowWith nowhere to call a homeStart their singingWaiting through the summertimeTo thaw your hearts in wintertimeThat's why they're singing...
Waiting for a sign to turn blood into wineThe sweet taste in your mouth--turned bitter in its glass
Israel...in IsraelIsrael...in Israel
Shattered fragments of the pastMeet in veins on the stained glassLike the lifeline in your palmRed and green reflects the sceneOf a long forgotten dreamThere were princes and there were kings
Now hidden in disguise--cheap wrappings of liesKeep your heart alive with a song from inside
Even though we're all aloneWe are never on our own when we're singing
There's a man who's looking inAnd he smiles a toothless grinBecause he's singing...See some people shine with gleeBut their song is jealousyTheir hate is clanging--maddening
In Israel...will they sing Happy NoelIsrael...in IsraelIsrael...in IsraelIn Israel will they sing Happy Noel"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOEL lexi
LO, ONE LONE EL
That's very interesting. I found a site where this person ( actually from my home state, Michigan ) photographs snowflakes. Michigan in winter gives him lots to photograph.
Anyway he has pictures of both symmetric and non-symmetric snowflakes. Very pretty to look at. http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/snowflakes/flake_thumbs.htm
Each of Us a Snowflakeby Emily Warburton
Each of us a Snowflake
We are each of us a snowflake
not two of us the same
Reflections of the endless loving
Source from which we came
Unique in form and beauty
Crystalized at birth
Little flecks of heaven
born to melt into the earth
of infinate design
Transitory dancers
on the window panes of time
No two of us the same
a falling star in flight
A travler through the universe
in search of our own light
No two of one design
on the window pane of time.
Snowflakes by Anna MacPherson
Each one comes in a different lightA different reason a different nightThe brightest thing you'll ever knowLove for them will forever growEvery one has a different faceEach of them their own special graceIt's in our lives they frolic and singJust to see them alive is a beautiful thingThey bring us joy they give us lovethey're a beautiful creation from God aboveThey laugh they play, make us smile and gleamLet's walk amongst them and share their dreamA sparkling snowflake is truly uniqueIts your understanding they wish to seekOpen your hands and soon you'll seeWhat beautiful people these snowflakes can be
Beautiful as they are they are no fun to shovel.
Wonder Land!
Love and Magic!
Dean.
------------------I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.
Sue Monk Kidd, "The Secret Life of Bees", p79
Logically Magical Logic is Magically Logical Magic! (and vice versa!)Numerology Program
Lotus I have a magazine clipping about snowflakes and the man who photographed them on my notice board.
ListensToTrees, you have a clipping on your notice board, hehe, signs everywhere..TwinSouls, Other Half, no two snowflakes are the same, but they are alike, and all form from the 6 of LOve, woo-hoo! Oh and the Light of One, WOW!
I'm just not sure whether we are all unique in ourselves, being soul mates to each other but actual half to no other.......or whether we were Originally created, in soul, as two halves from One......
I'm going to bed
later alligator, love and moonlight
we are eternally One .. and eternally Twowhich encircles us within the magic ThreeOf the Holy Trinityof Miracles... do you see?"
then our eyes lockedin a deep, deep knowing
we touched noses
and whispered
Magic!
~~ *MAGIC * MAGIC * MAGIC * magic * magic * magic * magic *!
page 1080 of Gooberz
my thoughts...
In Heaven we are 2 and 1 encircledthis circleto become humanwas split in twomale and female human formdestined through time and spaceto find One another and becomewhole, through Mastership. ...
This is the time that Linda wrote about,when Twin Souls (your Other Half)will find each Other, and bring Heavenon Earth..That Isis and Osiris find One anotherfor they are the MOther and Father ofthis last Creation, and have gone bymany different names. ...
2in1
NOW! WON!
I love snowflakes...!!!
Sunshine
------------------All my love, with all my Heartlotusheartone
------------------All my love, with all my Heartlotusheartone/Emeraldopal
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