[lbo-talk] lbo-tech-talk

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 24 10:20:34 PDT 2006


On 10/24/06, Charles A. Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:


> While I was writing I thought up an interesting question. Do
> snowflakes form their symmetric patterns outside a gravitational
> field. Anybody know?

I would think that in a force in one direction across the snowflake (like gravity) would work against symmetry.

More interesting perhaps is why they are symmetrical at all:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow#Geometry>

-- Andy



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