Every Snowflake Is Unique—But So Is Everything Else
“Is it really true that no two snowflakes are alike? You know, that’s just a silly question. It’s silly because no two trees are alike, no two grains of sand are alike, no two anything are alike. Anything that has any complexity is different from everything else, because once you introduce complexity then there’s just an uncountable number of ways to make it.”
This month, popular YouTube channel Veritasium featured Caltech professor of physics and resident snowflake expert Kenneth G. Libbrecht. In The Snowflake Mystery, Libbrecht explains the science of snowflakes and notes that although every snowflake is indeed unique, that feature is not as special as you may have been led to believe.