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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThese Are the Highest Resolution Photos Ever Taken of Snowflakes
Photographer and scientist Nathan Myhrvold has developed a camera that captures snowflakes at a microscopic level never seen before.
Myhrvold, who holds a PhD in theoretical mathematics and physics from Princeton University and served as the Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft for 14 years, leaned on his background as a scientist to create the camera. He also tapped into his experience as a photographer ... Myhrvold first got the idea to photograph snowflakes 15 years ago after meeting Kenneth Libbrecht, a California Institute of Technology professor who happened to be studying the physics of snowflakes.
full article at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-are-highest-resolution-photos-ever-taken-snowflakes-180976710/
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Earthshine2
(4,044 posts)He cannot reproduce his own experiments. Neither can anyone else.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-pseudoscience-of-creating-beautiful-or-ugly-water-1.574583
https://leftprogress.com/2014/02/yes-masaru-emoto-is-a-total-fraud/
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I also personally do not take lack of evidence to equate to evidence of lack.
Earthshine2
(4,044 posts)"I also personally do not take lack of evidence to equate to evidence of lack. "
These words do not substantiate anything. You seem to be trying to prove a negative by virtue of its own nonexistence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I'm saying that lack of evidence is not evidence of lack.
Earthshine2
(4,044 posts)You actually cited Emoto's own article as evidence of proof of his work.
This conversation must end now. Please do not reply.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I do not perceive my beliefs as nonsense.
Earthshine2
(4,044 posts)Seems there's only one article in support of his work -- his own.
Did you click your own link? There's actually no article there. Just an abstract. The data has been removed.
A google search on "Emoto fraud" turns up many links.
From wikipedia ...
Writing about Emoto's ideas in the Skeptical Inquirer, physician Harriet A. Hall concluded that it was "hard to see how anyone could mistake it for science".[5] Emoto was personally invited to take the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge by James Randi in 2003 and would have received US$1,000,000 if he had been able to reproduce the experiment under test conditions agreed to by both parties. Emoto did not accept the invitation.[19][20]
Again, you are welcome to believe that Emoto's work is true.
So, why am I bothering with this? There was a time when I wanted to believe that emotional energy could affect physical reality at a distance, such as is shown in What the Bleep?
But, ultimately, sadly, that belief didn't stand up to intellectual rigor.
TheRickles
(2,068 posts)If so, you might want to look into the work done by Dr. Robert Jahn and his Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab over the past 40 years. They demonstrated exactly what you dismissed - emotional energy can affect physical reality at a distance. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17560342/
And Wikipedia has a well-known bias against holistic therapies and approaches that purport to use invisible healing energies, regardless of what the science may show: https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2014/11/28/harvard-doc-to-wikipedia-youre-not-playing-fair-on-alternative-trauma-therapy
Chakaconcarne
(2,457 posts)Thanks for sharing.
TwilightZone
(25,472 posts)It's been well-established that he was a pseudo-scientific fraud.
There's no evidence that any of his claims can, pardon the pun, hold any water.
https://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1144934/masaru_emotos_wonderful_world_of_water
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-pseudoscience-of-masaru-emoto/
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Masaru_Emoto#/Scientific_criticism
TheRickles
(2,068 posts)Scientific validation from Princeton of the concept that mind can influence matter (apart from whatever Emoto did or did not demonstrate - and the study you cited here is a good one, too).
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Thought it was going to be some high-res photos of Republicans :p
kirkuchiyo
(402 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,755 posts)But I really don't want to see hi-res photos of most of those slugs. Eww.
OMGWTF
(3,962 posts)niyad
(113,422 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)AmyStrange
(7,989 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 28, 2021, 06:36 PM - Edit history (1)
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Nature just blows me the freak away!
Thanks for posting.
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kurtcagle
(1,604 posts)Snowflakes have rotational symmetry - if you rotate a snowflake through 60 degrees, the image will be the same. However, because snowflakes do rotate in the air as they freeze, there is a slight tug along the direction of rotation that can make them mirror asymmetric. No less beautiful, of course, and if anything even more mathematically intriguing.
AmyStrange
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heh heh heh just kidding.
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EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts).....Rodney King: "Can't we all get along?"
AmyStrange
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The answer to that would SOLVE everything.
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calimary
(81,338 posts)Great thread!
Both almost impossibly magnificent gorgeousness, and mirth, DU-style!
Those snowflake photos are astounding! Nothing short of MAGICAL!
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Some really interesting findings
And
Water fascination here!
ananda
(28,868 posts)Thanks
hay rick
(7,626 posts)RicROC
(1,204 posts)I like the first photo- it could be used for a new flag. It would fit in any western New York State city.
IcyPeas
(21,894 posts)hmmm?
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)Came in here expecting pictures of Trump supporters in tears and on copium. I leave equally relieved and disappointed.