Posted: Dec 7, 2001
[...] wrote:
If you pick up a snowflake and look at it before it melts, you can see
an intricate symmetric structure.
>
[ dead links ]
>
The structure forms as a result of humidity and temperature as it falls.
On Tuesday night, a translucent blanket of snow drifted down from the heavens and tucked the city into bed. As I waited for the bus that night, I gathered quite a few of these fractal miracles on my coat and stared long and hard at them, examining their crystalline structure. Beautiful. Fscking gorgeous. Perfect hexagons and six-pointed stars, and from the sky, no less. Consider all the mathematics we've taken so long to discover and elucidate, and just think, nature had already mastered them long before we were a glimmer in the earth's eye.
Each snowflake is like a reminder from Nature to Humanity:
"Look what I can do. Nyah nyah."
Utterly beautiful.
D.