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I was not denying the application of this word "anisotropic" to these other crystal categories. I will stipulate that they grow in a direction dependent manner. The point I was trying to make, is that I think water is unique in its capacity to produce single crystals which grow in six...

While this property that you refer to as "anisotropic" may be common to ice, metals, polymers, and so on, as you say (I will take your word for that) i.e. that their mode of growth is direction dependent, isn't it also true, that the kind of crystal growth that we see here in these water...

The principles of surface tension, raindrops and spheres are discussed in these two interesting videos. [SIZE="3"]Julius Sumner Miller - Physics - Soap Bubbles pt. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvrsAhuvs3M [SIZE="3"]Julius Sumner Miller - Physics - Soap Bubbles pt. 2...

I get the impression that there is a consensus forming in regards to this thesis that the sun is supposedly spherical because of the law of gravity. But why is the law of gravity configured to make a sun or a planet spherical? What is the purpose being served by these spherical shapes? Do...

Thanks Mapes, for the welcome, and for your observation. Yes, this sounds like the most reasonable explanation (at first glance) though I wanted to put the question out there to see if someone was aware of some other mechanism operating that was not obvious. Without a doubt, the breath of the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S1ZiNCz6CA In this video, the chief researcher is shown collecting a water sample from a very beautiful location in Japan. He takes it back to the lab, and divides the sample into 50 petri dishes. The amount of water in each petri dish is 1 ml. He then freezes...