These Are the Highest Resolution Photos Ever Taken of Snowflakes

[left-of-center2012]

Photographer and scientist Nathan Myhrvold has developed a camera that captures snowflakes at a microscopic level never seen before.

Myhrvold, who holds a PhD in theoretical mathematics and physics from Princeton University and served as the Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft for 14 years, leaned on his background as a scientist to create the camera. He also tapped into his experience as a photographer ... Myhrvold first got the idea to photograph snowflakes 15 years ago after meeting Kenneth Libbrecht, a California Institute of Technology professor who happened to be studying the physics of snowflakes.







full article at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-are-highest-resolution-photos-ever-taken-snowflakes-180976710/

[SheltieLover]

1. Looks like Dr. Emoto's "Water Project" pix!

[Earthshine2]

6. You know that Emoto is a fraud.

He cannot reproduce his own experiments. Neither can anyone else.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-pseudoscience-of-creating-beautiful-or-ugly-water-1.574583

https://leftprogress.com/2014/02/yes-masaru-emoto-is-a-total-fraud/

[SheltieLover]

8. NIH article seems to disagree

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16979104/

I also personally do not take lack of evidence to equate to evidence of lack.

[Earthshine2]

9. They offered him a million dollars to do reproduce his work as seen in "The Secret." He can't!

"I also personally do not take lack of evidence to equate to evidence of lack. "

These words do not substantiate anything. You seem to be trying to prove a negative by virtue of its own nonexistence.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

[SheltieLover]

10. Nope.

I'm saying that lack of evidence is not evidence of lack.

[Earthshine2]

12. Repeating this nonsense doesn't make Emoto's work true.

You actually cited Emoto's own article as evidence of proof of his work.

This conversation must end now. Please do not reply.

[SheltieLover]

14. Lol

I do not perceive my beliefs as nonsense.

[Earthshine2]

16. Facts vs. faith You are welcome to believe that Emoto's work is true.

Seems there's only one article in support of his work -- his own.

Did you click your own link? There's actually no article there. Just an abstract. The data has been removed.

A google search on "Emoto fraud" turns up many links.

From wikipedia ...

Writing about Emoto's ideas in the Skeptical Inquirer, physician Harriet A. Hall concluded that it was "hard to see how anyone could mistake it for science".[5] Emoto was personally invited to take the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge by James Randi in 2003 and would have received US$1,000,000 if he had been able to reproduce the experiment under test conditions agreed to by both parties. Emoto did not accept the invitation.[19][20]


Again, you are welcome to believe that Emoto's work is true.

So, why am I bothering with this? There was a time when I wanted to believe that emotional energy could affect physical reality at a distance, such as is shown in What the Bleep?

But, ultimately, sadly, that belief didn't stand up to intellectual rigor.

[TheRickles]

29. Would you give credence to work done by the Dean of Princeton's Dept. of Engineering?

If so, you might want to look into the work done by Dr. Robert Jahn and his Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab over the past 40 years. They demonstrated exactly what you dismissed - emotional energy can affect physical reality at a distance. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17560342/

And Wikipedia has a well-known bias against holistic therapies and approaches that purport to use invisible healing energies, regardless of what the science may show: https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2014/11/28/harvard-doc-to-wikipedia-youre-not-playing-fair-on-alternative-trauma-therapy

[Chakaconcarne]

23. and I thought this post was a simple admiration of some beautiful, high res pics of snowflakes....

Thanks for sharing.

[TwilightZone]

28. That's his own article.

It's been well-established that he was a pseudo-scientific fraud.

There's no evidence that any of his claims can, pardon the pun, hold any water.

https://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1144934/masaru_emotos_wonderful_world_of_water

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-pseudoscience-of-masaru-emoto/

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Masaru_Emoto#/Scientific_criticism

[TheRickles]

32. Comment #29 has some info you might be interested in.

Scientific validation from Princeton of the concept that mind can influence matter (apart from whatever Emoto did or did not demonstrate - and the study you cited here is a good one, too).

[luv2fly]

2. Not what I expecetd

Thought it was going to be some high-res photos of Republicans :p

[kirkuchiyo]

7. 100% this, beat me to it. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Ha, me too!

But I really don't want to see hi-res photos of most of those slugs. Eww.

[OMGWTF]

26. Me three!

[niyad]

21. My first thought, as well.

[soothsayer]

3. Cool (pardon the pun)

[CatMor]

4. Amazing...each one is a work of art.

[AmyStrange]

5. WOW! And they're always symmetrical too...

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Nature just blows me the freak away!


Thanks for posting.
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[kurtcagle]

13. Sort of

Snowflakes have rotational symmetry - if you rotate a snowflake through 60 degrees, the image will be the same. However, because snowflakes do rotate in the air as they freeze, there is a slight tug along the direction of rotation that can make them mirror asymmetric. No less beautiful, of course, and if anything even more mathematically intriguing.

[AmyStrange]

15. blah blah blah

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heh heh heh just kidding.
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[EarnestPutz]

17. Good one. Made me laugh. Better than the eight part disagreement going on above. Or, to quote....

.....Rodney King: "Can't we all get along?"

[AmyStrange]

18. Good question.

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The answer to that would SOLVE everything.
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[calimary]

25. Lol!

Great thread!

Both almost impossibly magnificent gorgeousness, and mirth, DU-style!

Those snowflake photos are astounding! Nothing short of MAGICAL!

[OhNo-Really]

19. Water Memory - for the water wonks.

Some really interesting findings

And

Water fascination here!

[ananda]

20. They are SO beautiful!

Thanks

[hay rick]

22. Hey, I got the Biden rec (46)!

[calimary]

24. Lol!

[RicROC]

27. new flag?

I like the first photo- it could be used for a new flag. It would fit in any western New York State city.

[IcyPeas]

30. reminds me of something.

hmmm?

[Stand and Fight]

31. Came in here expecting...

Came in here expecting pictures of Trump supporters in tears and on copium. I leave equally relieved and disappointed.