Why is every snowflake “unique”? There are so many snowflakes at all times, and however many ‘illions in the past, shouldn’t it have used every combination by now?
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It’s kind of a cheat in a way.
Essentially every everything is ‘unique’ in some way.
But no, the structures of them are so complicated with so much potential for variation that you end up with so many combinations that two would never be the same.
It’s kind of like how Chess looks fairly limited but there’s most possible chess games than atoms in the universe. It just becomes exponentially complicated so fast.
They’re not actually unique.
http://thescienceexplorer.com/nature/snowflakes-are-not-unique-we-thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM1QgwaKv4s (this is about fingerprints, but also mentions snowflakes)
When water evaporates back into the sky it comes back down eventually and sometimes it freezes on the way down. A snowflake however is what happens when these frozen droplets of water bond with any kind of particle like dust or pollen and branch out from there. The uniqueness of each snowflake design is indeed different even to the point of the difference being very minute.
I mean every snowflake is *maybe* unique if you also consider its location in space and time
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