initial seed molecular shape?
As far as I know almost all of cosmic events are spherically expansive, from the centres outward in isotropic manner. By "isotropic" is meant "same in all directions".
Typical examples might be supernova explosions. You get all kinds of constituent elements gushing out outwardly from the centres. In that respect, one might say that crystal arm formation is a rare event in the universe that we live in.
Perhaps, crystal arm formation is an earth bound, or gravity bound local event, is it? Whichever...In any event I do not know of three dimensional crystals.
My greatest concern and interest is not there, at all. I am more interested in just how on earth these arms are formed. In particular, when one arm is progressively being formed outwardly how does it know what other arms might or might not be doing.
Is it aware at all that there are indeed other arms?
Anyway, it bothers me a lot because these ice crystals are reproducible in large quantities. If all ice crystals look different I will not be bothered. The fact that they are exactly alike must mean that there is a simple rule, and I want to do a thought experiment here.
Actually, I may have bitten off too much to digest. In any event I want to look for images of a water molecule. In imagining how ice crystals are formed I will assume two dimensional development, simply because that is what I normally find as the pictures of any single crystal.
If ice crystals are formed into three dimensional structures in mid air (apart from thickness, that is) and become suddenly flat on landing on a window pane, say, oh no! I would not buy it! We are not talking about quantum mechanics!
I firmly believe that they are flat in mid air, too, as well as upon landing on anything on the ground. So, if I find a water molecule model I might connect them into a flat structure and see if that might change into star like formation...
quantum mechanical stability at 104.5 degrees
hydrogen bonding
in-isotropic and turbulent atmosphere, gravitational acceleration,
geomagnetic field lines, perhaps even solar radiation
macroscopic instability of momentarily connected water molecules
金平糖
(tc)
As far as I know almost all of cosmic events are spherically expansive, from the centres outward in isotropic manner. By "isotropic" is meant "same in all directions".
Typical examples might be supernova explosions. You get all kinds of constituent elements gushing out outwardly from the centres. In that respect, one might say that crystal arm formation is a rare event in the universe that we live in.
Perhaps, crystal arm formation is an earth bound, or gravity bound local event, is it? Whichever...In any event I do not know of three dimensional crystals.
My greatest concern and interest is not there, at all. I am more interested in just how on earth these arms are formed. In particular, when one arm is progressively being formed outwardly how does it know what other arms might or might not be doing.
Is it aware at all that there are indeed other arms?
Anyway, it bothers me a lot because these ice crystals are reproducible in large quantities. If all ice crystals look different I will not be bothered. The fact that they are exactly alike must mean that there is a simple rule, and I want to do a thought experiment here.
Actually, I may have bitten off too much to digest. In any event I want to look for images of a water molecule. In imagining how ice crystals are formed I will assume two dimensional development, simply because that is what I normally find as the pictures of any single crystal.
If ice crystals are formed into three dimensional structures in mid air (apart from thickness, that is) and become suddenly flat on landing on a window pane, say, oh no! I would not buy it! We are not talking about quantum mechanics!
I firmly believe that they are flat in mid air, too, as well as upon landing on anything on the ground. So, if I find a water molecule model I might connect them into a flat structure and see if that might change into star like formation...
quantum mechanical stability at 104.5 degrees
hydrogen bonding
in-isotropic and turbulent atmosphere, gravitational acceleration,
geomagnetic field lines, perhaps even solar radiation
macroscopic instability of momentarily connected water molecules
金平糖
(tc)