Why are snowflakes like this? 

Ken for president!

Kinda made me sad, if I had more tha 10 euros in my debit card I would buy one

Wait, isn't that just known as "print on demand"?

@@giovannifalso6342 lol the man is rich why sad?

@@mal2ksc My impression is he meant he kept making new books with pictures of snowflakes, not just printing copies of the same book.

heh it's cool

This is actually really ethically important and oft overlooked. A majority of research is performed in a matrix of biases related to future funding, grant writing, extensions, and pay. It's neat when people can research a topic without being motivated to seek conclusions that benefit something, or someone, even if it's 'the greater good', medicine etc. All serious scientists know about these biases and work hard to avoid them and produce good ethical science. But it's neat when people like him can just focus on something cool.

@@kiprs heh heheh

Tbh that is kinda where a lot of innovation came from. I always like joking about how scientists came up with the theory of the particle/wave duality of matter. They were like "light works, so how about we chuck random subatomic particles at it and see what happens?"

Gotta have the almighty $

Not like I love snow because I don't but I cant imagine not ever seeing or touching it. It's gonna be pretty wild when you see it for the first time lol.

That's indeed a curious thought, never to have witnessed snow in direct contact. Living in the Netherlands and visiting Germany and Austria on a regular basis, I cannot imagine what it means not to know the sensation of touching snow, ice and all of its shapes and sizes. How to feel the snow collapse under the weight of my feet, the sound that it makes, the way in which I can gather some snow and make a ball from it, and how that ball can be thrown, so as to hit a surface and disintegrate again. The ice crystals at a badly insulated window, the view of a million snow flakes, gently falling from the sky in winter, the small Dutch canals on which we can go ice skating, it's all part and parcel of our seasonal experience, just as the warm summers are. Australia has some snowy areas in Victoria and NSW, but I guess that the majority of the Australians does not frequently visit these places.

@@Guido_XL yikes

As a singaporean, I have also never seen or touched snowflakes before and really want to experience it at least once.

@@Kvltklassik Who

Brasileiros estão por toda parte. Hehe.

I'm Canadian, and love watching the snow melt, because it means that winter is finally ending and I don't have to see the snow for another 7 to 8 months.

@@dominicbonogofski I'm Canadian too (from Saskatchewan), and I hate it when winter ends. Winter is my favourite season. It's so beautiful. There is nothing like the quiet hush, and cozy evenings, that come in deep winter. This winter has been so disappointing! It didn't snow until JANUARY. And if you're from around here you know that is crazy. It normally is snowing by around Halloween, sometimes earlier. I'm sure I've seen it snow it September. And, even now, there's not a lot of snow. At least, not by Saskatchewan standards. I hate summer. It's hot and sticky and gross. There's bugs everywhere, and tornados, and the heat is horrible. Why do people think plus 35 is a nice temp? Ugh. It's gross. You're all hot and sweaty, and sticky with sunscreen and bug spray. I mean, I know - to each their own. I just honestly don't get why anyone would like summer. I honestly believe people here have been brainwashed/conditioned to think summer is good, and winter is bad. They've been told that since they were like five years old, and now they just go along with it, without pausing to think about it. That's what I think, anyway. Bugs. Tornadoes. Power always going out because of thunderstorms. Being boiling hot. Not being able to sleep in the unbearable heat. Being sweaty. Being all sticky with sunscreen. Mosquito bites. Bugs all over the place. The drunks roaming the streets (too cold for them in winter to do so), the endless noise, all the contructions noises, motorcycles without mufflers breaking your eardrums, nothing peaceful or beautiful or quiet about it....until winter finally comes.

That is so interesting to hear! I'm Canadian. But I can really see, how, if you didn't grow up with snow, those could seem like a cartoon-like representation. I liked reading your post, because it gave me a perspective I couldn't have myself, having grown up here in Canada. I would have never though of seeing it as a cartoon-like thing.

@@Julia-nl3gq I'm also from Saskatchewan, and I don't particularly care for any season, as they all have downsides to them. The one I hate the least is spring. And there's no such thing as "standard weather conditions" in Saskatchewan. We literally had one year where it snowed in September, melted by October, and didn't snow again until January. The next year, there were like 2 blizzards in the span of two months where I live. I'm pretty sure it was also that same year where during the summer, it reached 46°C outside. Our climate is chaos.

I would watch that one.

please let them do so. i am traumatized due to excessive exposure to those two movies due to my kids.

@@coskuarsiray well I mean, the kids who watched Frozen are probably over 18 now so the movie can adapt to the new demographics 😏

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Is that your passion?

When I do that, nobody cares :(

@@somerandom7672 find new friends

Thats cap, you wouldn't actually listen to somebody talking about something boring, snow and snowflakes are intriguing topics to you. If I started talking about paper you would fall sleep or click off the video in 2 minutes. Even if it was said passion.

For me it was noticing a snowflake on my jacket and realizing I could see the actual shape of it, and that it was actually a hexagon! It made me realize “wow, they’re actually shaped like that!!”

@@Piper_____ yess i cant believe how they are "extremely rare" but people find them on accident, LOL.

@@justsomeguymustache I mean, with however many snowflakes come down during one snowy day, even a one-in-a-million chance probably happens a few times!

I did an art project on radial symmetry and teared up multiple times looking at images of snowflakes. The awe I experienced discovering the immensely beautiful designs that had been invisible to me for my whole life was overwhelming. I feel so lucky to have had that moment. The artist I looked at was Alexey Kljatov.

This is how scientists were made at Caltech 40 years ago. Now Caltech is mostly full of poorly educated, DEI students. What a shame as our meritocracy is destroyed.

Make sure to not become the anteater guy ^^

@@sogari2187 😂

@Aaaa either be happy with what you have, or endlessly search for something that makes you happy

Except he left the place (North Dakota) where he experienced what he loved naturally, to California where they make everything perfectly fake.

@@motifity3416 The ideal would be to be happy with what you have AND endlessly search for anything that will make you happier (not just materialistic obvs). If one was to be happy with what they have and have no desire to endlessly acquire anything else that would sustain or improve that - they would starve to death.

Understanding the formation of snowflakes is not directly useful. But a better understanding of the formation of micro-crystals in general can be enormously useful for material science and chemistry. This has direct industrial application.

I agree, and I would add that even the most apparently "useless" knowledge often can lead to amazing insights down the line.

And who knows what it might be used for, one day. I can think of anything from better weather forecasts, to models how you get from snowflakes to glaciers (and in turn the climate), or even other substances that form hexagonal crystals (like carbon; so this may be relevant for understanding carbon nanotubes as well, which have huge potential for technical applications). When you start doing basic research, the possible applications are not at all obvious.

Well, we shouldnt forget about those who are doing the really necessary stuff (workers, engineers, doctors etc.), though. We need to keep in mind, that while this man makes things which might be useful for someone on a one out of ten days, he still needs to eat on the other nine days as well. The only reason why he is able to do what he is doing is the fact that someone else is creating enough value to provide for him. Its nice to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, but someone has to look down and worry about our place in the dirt as well.

It isn't that complex that's the point of the video, it's action and region to the list basic level.

We've reached a point in animal evolution where we have the luxury to ask "who and why we are". Seeking to increase comfort and safety is an animal instinct. When we are finally comfortable enough, the energy we use our brains with can shift else where

Currently a very great deal of us live in misery and insecurity due to the pursuit of unfulfulliable greed by a few. I do not see the pursuit of comfort and security for the many as a vice at current time.

I'm 14 and this is deep

@@Whatismusic123 Just wait until you're actually aware of how little _you do know,_ and how much you take for granted *that you don't.*

There's also selection bias here though- you are the kind of person who clicks on a video about how snowflakes form. Which means that among the hundreds of thousands of potential videos, you were served this video by an algorithm that guessed you might like it. And then, even more unlikely, you actually clicked on it. I think most people who would watch a video like this wouldn't be the same group of people who would feel the need to ask why you'd study such a thing. It's like asking diners in an Italian restaurant which of them likes tomatoes. You're probably going to get a higher-than-average number of people who like tomatoes in that selection group than if you asked more broadly to the general populace, or in an unfriendly selection group- like a kindergarten classroom. The people who ask him that are likely more the latter two kinds of groups, the people who have neutral or negative interest themselves.

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@@MrUssy101 bru wtf?!

@@MrUssy101 just let him do what he likes to do man

@@MrUssy101 "who cares about snowflakes", says the guy clicking on a video abt snowflakes

@@MrUssy101 People care more about snowflakes than they care about you

this. finding something that brings you joy for this amount of time in your life. In my eyes this is what life is about.

Snowflakes are fun

Yeah - he looks like a really Good person - Reminds me of Dr Emoto. Both studying water crystallization...

He looks like a scientist who is not only psyched to have this as a job, but super-psyched that a very notable youtuber brought a camera crew to actually share it with the world. I mean, he starts out by talking about how his research is both valued by professionals, but also sold zero books after publication. It really do be like that in the wilderness of scientific research sometimes.

@@pirojfmifhghek566 You misunderstood. He published two successful books, then kept publishing more until eventually there was one that sold zero copies.

Underrated 😭

He's a perfect example of "If you love your work you'll never work a day in your life." He just feels like he's playing all day and getting paid for it.

I think he wonders though :p

He’s so comfortable talking about his study and you can easily tell because of the way he sits, holds himself and emotes so enthusiastically. His excitement is palpable.

The best part is that you could tell he wasn't forcing it, it was real.

you understand if you ever was on camera. Try not to smile is difficult. Smiling is common.

Bbfreagjmin quota people you mean

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that's smart :D also I'd like to know why are individual snoflakes only a few cenitmeters at max size I don't know of an explanation . . . and could be because this is so complex

@@DrDeuteron that's one part of it are there any updrafts ?? . . a strong updraft can hold quite large objects in the air

They didn't go down this rabbit hole, but like Steve Mould has explained before, sometimes searching for answers leads to discoveries that are useful, whether the initial question was "important" or not.

The whole point of science is to figure stuff out, this guy gets it

@@kruks exactly! We won't fully understand how useful something like this is off the bat. It could be one of those things that in 100 years someone looks back and it solves some super complex problem.

Such a vast area of discovery too. Aplicable to a degree in all forms of crystalisation. Pushing the unknown always further back, for ever.

Has anyone figured out women yet? Can we get a scientist on that?

He snowflake maxxed

If you ever did the stuff you love as a job - you'd VERY quickly find out how BS that quote is...

With the exception that he left North Dakota for California to do it. U likey the irony?

you forgot to add "If you're lucky". I love sleeping, but it 'aint gonna get me nowhere.

@@TheUltimateBlooper couldn’t agree more 😂

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None of the work he presented was theoretical, it was all practical hands on. That is how science should be done.

@@sonpopco-op9682 At the end he did his prediction for form variation of the snow crystals and it fall perfect with his data later on so he was doing both.

Atomic molecular structure visible in the macro world

Yes. At first he gave the impression of only doing experiments, but that changed later in the video.

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Why does this obnoxious guy he knows everything and we are the dumb ones !!!!!

@@MrUssy101 Because he uses correct grammar.

@@MrUssy101 stop it, get some help

Frieza's full power is only 1% of this man's full power

Power?

Admirable for sure

Learns more and more about less and less until, in the limit, he knows everything about nothing. Managers, on the other hand learn a little about more and more until, again in the limit, they know nothing about everything.

@@borysnijinski331 ?

@@borysnijinski331 - Socrates

@@borysnijinski331 are you saying he sucks at science

Yeah it’s so cool. This is the videos math teachers should show

Hahha yes. Beautiful and complex

Ha Ha! I knew there would be a snowflake joke in the comments. =)

"thats the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me :') "

best reply ive ever read

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@J J explain to me i dont get it

@@ccriztoff bruh 💀

@@ccriztoff Correct. Snowflakes don't work,. They bitch, complain, get offended & avoid work at all costs.

A code representing changes in environmental conditions the snow flake has encountered during formation.

The 'shape' of every human being does the same...

How & why did you spend a winter in the arctic?

@@-flanders-8975 work

Yeah helll right,,,

LIBRULS BE LIKE

Snowflake Scientist

@@joratto2833 HE'LL YAEH BREATHER🤘🤘🤘

He made them a little safe space and everything

and that somebody else wants to know something special like that, is making him happy

he just had too many crystals in college parties.. got himself onto the cause... LOL

It's probably more about making money than snow flakes.

The key is to find what we can do in our own lives to bring us the same type and intensity of joy. Easier said than done for most of us, but we can start looking at what we want to do in the world that makes us enthusiastic.

@@Xapheus U see, this in itself changes over time. what is interesting at age 10 is no longer interesting at age 16 and age 26 makes anything but pleasure a pointless task.

If you or everyone want to have Ken's knowledge about this filed then you need to be teaching Foundational principle of electric instead the base 101 of electric. All electron moved or behave just like what ? If the earth is proton then the moon is electron, If (the earth + the moon ) is the Push gravity then the sun is Pull gravity. An Atom's constructional space is just a fraction super nano version of Solar system that' s all.

@@baogiangsongque5507 @Lac Di you really don't know what you are talking about. What you are describing is the very naive teaching in high school to give a first intuition. In higher study you will learn that quantum physics is completely different from solar system and it's gravity. Electron don't orbite the nucleus like earth around the sun. It has a probability distribution around the nucleus that can have many different shape, some spheric, some very strange. The electron is not really localised in one place, it is diluted in its atomic orbital. Search orbital atomic to learn more.

@@inconnuunknown8770 Your mind set really has big problem. There are 2 main principle: human's law and nature's law and combine both Which one is powerful best then that's as is. Rain from up to down by the nature's law but you can make human's rain from down revert up by a sprinkler pressure. You tell me that the human's law better than the nature's law. I hear this voice everywhere when the uneducational right kids want something from their mother >>>??? P/s: the problem nowaday that the education teched the kids what are right but not what are wrong >? Self learning every moment thinking is how compare between right Vs wrong and how it is forming ???

@@baogiangsongque5507 I find it really difficult to read your comment and interpret it as something wrong with current education. The way science has progressed is by asking whether something should do one, or another thing. Figuring out which it is by carefully testing it. Now you know the answer and can use it. Nature is only exploring some of the careful tests, humans build more because we look for answers nature alone isn't giving. There is no conflict in that, no wrongness. Just science and the fruitful search for answers

He is such nice and genuine guy.

I couldn't possibly say it better, Maryah!

That is true. It also may be a definition of why we might destroy ourselves! Double edged sword. Sounds about right though. haha. I am that way myself.

Exactly, there are many fields where research has been done on topics noone yet knew how to use, but proved very useful later on. One example is number theory, which is now ver, important for cryptography

@@EvilTaco Or Boolean algebra

@@EvilTaco ahh I love breaking down code But I can only do basic such as Cesar cipher and thats that. Hahaha

@@EvilTaco It's also good for people to seek knowledge that never turns out to have any "use" nor make anybody money. Knowledge is its own end, not just some means to an end.

Okay, but then you don't get to complain about college costing too much. It's your tuition dollars that are funding this.

And just like that, you've found an excellent application!!

Yaaay! I love this

@Aaaa technically yes but usually people will specify college. Normally when you hear "school" being used this way it means somewhere before college

It's amazing, the incredible amount of diverse information, your son has, at his fingertips, compared to when I was a boy. Books, and the internet. As one who enjoys learning about the world around me, I am grateful to live in a time, to see such changes. You sound like a good dad. Best wishes, for your families health/happiness. And hope your son gets a good grade 😀

@Aaaa Yes, and no. School is a general term that can mean college, but can also mean other types of education as well. College refers specifically to a university (or community college) education.

He may live in a bubble lol

@@cz2301 I hate internet snowflakes!

I thought this video was going to be about liberal art students, not math professors

Bubbles are extremely important. I would assume he is studying cavitation. Bubble dynamics are incredibly important for so many areas that the general public aren't aware of. Every leading academic institution has a bubble dynamicist - usually a mathematician (fluid mechanics).

@@klmn2000 thank you for bursting the bubble on this obscure part of science

Does a wetter heavier snow, versus a lighter fluffy feeling snow have a makeup that favours one type of snowflake over the other? In terms of flat plate like ones and rod/bullet shaped ones? ... you know, discounting slush and old treaded-upon snow that always gets wet and heavy feeling.

I am sorry for the weather

Sound like the best job anyone could have.

​@@smillman437 I don't know if I can perfectly answer your question, but I'll give it a long-winded shot. Snowflakes form way up in the sky where the temperature and humidity is far different from ground temperature and humidity. For this reason there is no real strong correlation between ground temperature and snowflake type. That being said, you do notice trends especially at a given location with similar weather fronts. I am up in BC right now and am finding because of the mountains and landscape the sky can be much cooler than in the valley below causing snow to fall at much warmer ground temperatures than in a more flat area. For this reason you can get plates or needles at above zero temperatures and have it be wet and "packy" snow. We classify snowflakes into one of 10 categories that we put on a scale from F1 to F10. F1 F2 being a plate, F3 F4 being needles and columns, F5 - F7 being what we call irregular crystals (like a broken clump of crystals, not flat like a plate or long and skinny like a column or needle), and F8 - F10 being different forms of snow pellets, hail, and ice pellets. When snowflakes are shifting to a different type, you generally see it change to something that is next to it on the scale. For example I rarely observe snow go from an F1 to F10, but often obverse an F1 to F3 to F7 to F8 to rain transition. Intensity and snowflake type are not correlated. You can get every type of snowflake at every intensity. What is correlated though is visibility and snowflake type at a given intensity. Plates, with their flat and large surface area, make visibility way worse than if you had a needle or column falling down with the same rate of intensity. This is why using visibility as a metric for snow intensity is not accurate and far from ideal.

@@filosofodemierda That was the last thought on my mind last February when I was out testing in 110kph winds....

Sadly I think there are many people who be that enthusiastic if had the opportunity to truly pursue what they wanted. 99% of the ppl who wanted to study snowflakes all ended up in do wage slave labor instead :/

he didn't spend his whole life just on snowflakes.... snowflakes presented an oppertunity for him

@@MrPLUR You know NOTHING about this man, his taxes, bills or anything beyond his fascination with and study of snowflakes. The world is chock full of interesting and meaningful ways to spend a life, in this country it’s a choice each person must make and live the consequences of that choice. If you are disgruntled by the lack of having found your own ‘snowflake’, it’s likely you have only yourself to blame.

@@rainofkhandaq6678 My grandmother used to tell me, ‘If you’re looking for ‘fair’, it’s with the cotton candy and carousels.’

This is why I love scientists. This man is staring at a near perfectly matching graph that you'd be lucky to get once in your life and... It *might* be right is the strongest he's willing to go.

Sorta right - he concludes there are NO 2 snowflakes alike - he calls it near impossible. BUT the remaining mystery in my eyes is WHY are there SIX poles to the the water 💧 molecules and hence the snowflakes ❄️?

@@BuildHardMuscle From a structural pov, could it be because of the shape of the water molecule itself and the position of the separate charges on the molecule...?

@@BuildHardMuscle I think it was somewhat explained in the video

@@BuildHardMuscle 6:35

As a mathematician I agree a lot. It's so awesome how some math deemed to be completely useless and merely a "mental exercise" is being applied on different disciplines nowadays. His snowflakes research might have some awesome everyday application someday.

I would love to make a video about obscure science stuff, but people care so much more about the shoes they wear or blouses they buy

@@RickFleischman I see your point sir but do not underestimate the intelligence of the intelligent or how many are out there. A huge amount of people care about discovering new things no matter how obscure they might seem. An easy proof: This video is trending at number 5 on youtube:P

@@sirris4330 That's why we're here: To find out things that aren't - that - useful (who knows tho!) but still worthy enough to be interesting, because why not find out why/how something works 👍 In a way, everything is kinda meaningless if you start looking at the "big picture". We all die eventually and according to some theories, in a way so does the universe and nothing of us will be left behind, so why bother. But we do and that's an awesome thing.

@@finnishfatman Hell ya man I like your mindset and I agree. Just have one thing to say about the "theories" you mention. That's just nonsense science my guy. Yes we all die but absolutely all of us is materially left behind. Our molecules slowly decay, whether cremated, buried, donated to science etc... we will all eventually become part of the earth and therefore the universe to be randomly divided into new life. It takes a long amount of time but all organic matter is recycled into the universe. The "why bother" part is much more complex of course. It has yet to be proven that the universe will die. It's possible that the spatial expansion(the expansion of space itself) will decelerate at some point in the future of the universe. There is no real understanding of things on that scope in science as we understand it. If you mean nothing left of us as a conscience entity, that's already a foregone conclusion. Perhaps the cycles of chance will allow you to be renewed in a multiverse scenario trillions of years in the future?:) My philosophy however tends to agree with you. It may not be healthy emotionally but I have always thought about how tiny we are as human beings. A meaningless drop in a universe so massive and complex that we as sole human lives can barely make a difference on our tiny planet in our arbitrary galaxy. However, the "big picture" for me is so freeing that it brings me joy. That's exactly why we can do what we feel passionate about. We can chase whatever feelings and dreams we have. There is no responsibility to an overbearing truth; only responsibility to our limitations imposed by a ignorant human brain. The universe is beyond comprehension truly. Along with insane economic privileges', that curiosity is why we are able to explore the limit of the human brain in our limited place in this unimaginable world.

LMAOOO so true

Makes me think of him as the guy at the snowflake lab in a winter special

Perfect in the Americas..... Not so Christmasy in Australia lol

Ikr

Maybe we can get a Doctor to answer the question I had for my DARE officer in grade school. If heroin is from poppy plants, why did I eat a hamburger last night covered in poppy seeds? Some questions NEED answering. Others complicate the enjoyment of the beauty of nature.

@@truthsRsung ignorance is bliss I assume for some people. Someday this finding could be the missing piece to understanding fusion reactions or quantum computing, but maybe it's best we just sit back and enjoy nature instead.

@@truthsRsung yo eat hamurgers covered in poppy seeds to get high of course

@@alkemix .....I still haven't gotten an answer on the poppy seed buns. I find that more relavent to my life than any benefit decoding the power of the sun has brought humanity. How many nuclear reactors have we produced as opposed to nuclear bombs after Einstein? Do we tend to use our education to help, or hurt our fellow man? Don't be so flippity floppity when you reply.

Understanding EXACTLY how crystals grow is a VERY-VERY useful knowledge in real life. The quality of our electronics today is totally dependent on the purity of the semiconductor crystals, and that is just ONE example from the many thousands.

which book

I always looked at them up close and was fascinated!

I did that without reading any books ☺ and I️ still do it.😜

Book would be a nice gift 🎁 for holidays

If I wanted to think about tomorrow, I would really want to think about yesterday again. This spicy writing is supposed to represent an exclamation, a kind of scream from an inwardly oppressed soul. I am almost blackish on the inside when I think of the current circumstances of our society. But not from an egoistic perspective, no, rather from an altruistic, self-sacrificing perspective that foresees a bad future for this world. For a world in which nothing dominates anymore. In a world that is an anarchy of feelings. But even here it doesn't matter how I feel about the world. I know you disagree. That’s yours. But only according to the rules of this world. Because in the end, when the beginning and middle and end of the times are over, only what you did counts. You can do whatever you feel like doing. We live in a society of pleasure, in which every individual pursues his goal erratically: the satisfaction of his needs. Be it sexually, financially, or otherwise. It no longer matters what needs you meet. The only thing that matters here is the fact that every person who kills their time here is a lost person. I know you're only here because you're acting out of fear. Fear of rejection, fear of failure? I hope for you that you know that if you waste your time here, your fear will not decrease. Because every day is worse than the previous one!

some useless ed math theoreom is now useful again !

Plants use the same system to grow.

@@legobrickabrac I do. I use excitement to write music and lyrics and to conceive of and mentally work on ideas for machines that I later set about building. I don't know why, but excitement is powerful fuel.

@@rowanmurphy5239 Are you a musician or are you using metaphors?

@@legobrickabrac lol plants don't use the same system to grow.... there's a slight difference what with the DNA snowflakes all turn out differently, plants somehow manage to grow to nearly the same shape.... it's not even a good analogy

not just an animation, I think it's a simulation ^_^

Also, very easy to animate / simulate. Just start with a grid pattern like you see at the end, then from left to right unfreeze them and let them move freely and play it back reversed :)

@@UlookP i was wondering the same lol

@Dmitry 4c ^^

@Dmitry 4c Interstellar contributed huge parts of their work to black hole research and built an entire engine to simulate them for the movie

Although its from a different field, i'd love to introduce you to crystalline glazes in ceramics!! Zinc Silicate(willemite) crystals can be grown in the glaze matrix by controlling temperature and duration during the firing process. I think this fusion between art and science is just simply beautiful to witness.

do you see any parallels between the different researches?

Do you think it would be possible to grow super efficient solar cells using CRISPR to modify a fungus from Fraser Island, Australia and glass sea sponge DNA?

Could you apply crystallisation occuring here to graphene?

@@abyssstrider2547 I was wondering the same thing. Like what parameters could you use to drive the crystalline structure? Temperature and pressure? This would be fascinating.

@nieooj gotoy I love it, so thankful for people like this.

yea but who gave him money to do it ... u need support . you cant feed your children with curiosity or snowflakes .. he was lucky that he had the support of university .. i wish the world we live change in a way so everyone with that level of enthusiasm would go and discover new things .. without worrying about how they gonna survive day to day life .

@@wingman751 Communism in Cuba in regards to the public health sector

That intrinsic curiosity is fundamental to the whole enterprise of science and also of technology. Even if we don't find a practical application for a discovery, there's intrinsic value in understanding the world around us. Curiosity really is a core human value that defines our species and has made us what we are today. And if you need more motivation to do basic science (basic science is science that looks at how the world works on the most fundamental level, rather than tries to solve a specific problem or application), sometimes we have no clue as to what we're looking at or what the applications could be, such as when we discovered quantum mechanics and developed quantum field theory. It seemed so far removed from our everyday lives, like how could this be practically relevant? But only after we did the basic science did we have the first sweet clue as to what was possible using quantum mechanical principles, and currently we've already found many applications of quantum principles that we never would have if someone hadn't first asked "Why?" purely for it's own sake.

An amateur scientist who first discovered spectral lines in France just prior to the revolution, brought his finds to a premier aristocratic scientist who dismissed his presentation as substandard and not worthy of his attentions. He was at the time a well known official tax collector. the man he dismissed took his revenge by denouncing him during the reign of terror.

Yes. Studying more about prism facets can be really useful when designing macro smooth surfaces and how matter adheres to it... and how to design geometry where matter can stick too.

this research could have massive implications for nano technology

Bless your father!

In order to understand snowflakes, he developed methods and experiments.

Snowflake technology is going to lead to Worm Holes, and then we can travel the galaxy. Didn't you hear what he said ;)

@@Scarrylaw It is a possibility.

Autistic & Asperger Syndrome people usually have "special interests" and somewhat obsessions over very specific stuff, so we already have people like him, we only need to encourage and support them to get where they want to be

@@cottonsheep2367 Yes, individuals are important. Beware of collectivist thought.

This is why he's so successful at it

@@Madmaniakid you are right.

would probably be a lot more common if people could divert all the money wasted on killing eachother in the military towards science.

he is so wholesome

I'd be enthusiastic af about lookin at ice crystals too if it was paying my bills

he sounded so guilty but proud saying "damn it", too xD

@@ERROR-ei5yv I noticed that too haha; maybe he wasn't sure if it was ok to say on the video or not.

or scientists in general lol

bro

Someone should collaborate with him to make a jewellery collection

@@allamasadi7970 Dude, that's an amazing idea. Algorithmically generated snowflake shapes, so each product is different.

And vice versa!

Exactly, understanding the physics of crystal formation can have huge benefits in all sorts of other fields, like car batteries or electronics manufacturing.

@@falconerd343 Yes, very good examples :D

@@falconerd343 *All manufacturing. Imagine if we could grow a perfect metallic crystal to practical specifications, it would revolutionize aerospace manufacturing for starters, but the knock on effects would be tremendous

Yeah I was thinking it could be used to learn about other planets climates by knowing what conditions it when through, though I suppose you would need more research with different atmospheres and such.

Exactly! Other user commented saying, "aww look at his face while studying snowflakes" and it got thousands of like. what a dumbass. Just because he is studying "Snowflakes" does not mean he is studying smth childish or cute. His study is gonna help us enormously understanding water molecules, interaction of water molecules with different gases in atmosphere etc, etc. God damn people are so dumb

I was a little afraid of confirmation bias when I heard him say that. But I am counting on the reviewers and sc. community to try to properly disprove the idea - if possible ;)

@@lorenzakastylecrew he did everything correctly according to the scientific method. Make a hypothesis, and then do an experiment to test it. After that it's the work of him and everyone else to try and disprove it like you said.

That's the same feeling I get when I change a light bulb and I flip the switch. The bulb lights up my emotions of success.

I did not know these are fields of study. I knew about avalanche research but snowflakes and ice? I regret my choice of career now 😐

That's really, no pun intended, cool. You should post a RU-vid video about your area of .research

You study ice? Why? What could that possibly be used for? 😉

As someone who’s addicted to Ben&Jerry’s Ice cream, I’m somewhat of an expert myself.

@@odeode4338 Haha, I worked ten years as a welder before going into engineering and discovering this Masters degree, so its never too late XD

Imagine a world with to little collaboration that this level of specialization isn't possible for anyone. This is the pinnacle of civilization.

Be glad to live in a world with me too. **FARTS LOUD AF**

True. Phenotype = genotype + environment. Everyone's environment is different.

I guess you must be waiting just around the riverbend as well.

This is really true especially when considering identical twins separated at a young age. They often end up looking very different due to environmental factors causing different outcomes from dna expression (i dont recall the actual terms or mechanisms but it’s basically like that.)

WOW ur, like, making my mind, like, implode maaan. What an original take thought you had.

@@ibrahimtall6209 you're obnoxious

Not weird at all

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