An Interesting Story about Snowflakes

    Apart from the fact that no two snowflakes are alike, there is a great symmetry in all snowflakes. The scientific world has not been able to understand scientifically that snowflakes have such a symmetry. When mathematicians examined the snowflakes under the microscope, all snowflakes under the microscope differed. The first studies about snowflakes date back to 1611's. Johannes Kepler was talking about a six-symmetrical shape of snow crystals in one article. 20 years later, Rene Descartes made a more detailed study and mentioned that hexagons also have different shapes.

    American Wilson Bentley, the first scientist to work on snowflakes in a microscopic environment, illustrated the following 800 different models as a result of the examination of the whole sample of snowflakes. Although Wilson Bentley is referred to as an American photographer, in three books he wrote - all of which depict the unique state of snowflakes - he mentions that snowflakes have a symmetrical structure. But a situation like this occurred. Wilson Bentley devoted his life to this question.

 “Can snowflakes have any other match? Does a snowflake have no other equivalent in the universe? "

    Bentley's life, unfortunately, was not enough to understand this. He studied many snowflakes, but they all had a different shape. But in 2006, scientists examined snowflakes falling with special microscopes in the city of Norwich, in the study, which was funded by the State and had a budget of 20 million pounds (46 million TL). Scientists, who started their studies in 2006, finally managed to detect a snowflake on December 3 that was exactly the same as the "Bentley snowflake". Just as follows….

    His words showed how he was affected by the snowflakes.

“I discovered under the microscope that snowflakes are miraculously beautiful. It is a great loss that this beauty is not seen by others and not given the necessary importance. Every crystal is a wonder of design and no design is ever repeated.

Apart from snowflakes, Bentley also photographed all forms of water such as clouds and fog. Called the snowflake man, Bentley was the first American to record raindrop sizes and also one of the first cloud physicists.

    The fractal geometry structure found in snowflakes is one of the most important evidences that show us the mathematical structure of snowflakes. Snowflakes are designed to maintain the Chaos theory according to the "Koch Order". These intertwined snowflakes that stretch forever. 

    The way snowflakes are formed is a branch of interest in chaos theory. Mathematically, each snowflake is formed by a fractal pattern of hexagonal shapes defined as n and r nested. Here n is the number of hexagons and r is its width. American Physics Professor Kenneth Libbrecht is another scientist doing research on this magnificent structure of snow crystals. Working at the California Institute of Technology, Libbrecht took real photographs of snowflakes, revealing the flawless beauty of God's art of creation.