Interesting patterns in nature.

[T-1 Thunder]

Here's a thread with no politics or BS.
Just let your mind wander, let your imagination go and let's play.

I had a bucket of sea water brought up the mountain from the ocean.
Bioluminescence. Had some algae in it that seemed to form tiger stripe lines when it settled.

These resemble the lines you see on a beach, or the milky way.

I shake the bucket, twist it, whatever - and they fall back into the same pattern.

Is there anything to this?

(When I shave and drop hair into the toilet, I notice they repel each other yet clump at the same time. What's up with that? If the oil in the hair causes them to separate, why do some clump up? Does it reflect on humans also, they way we tend to group into clicks and all?)

There may or may not be scientific potential or spiritual potential with this, but is sure is a trip.

Attached you will find a before and after picture, as well as a link to a video of what happened between.

Please don't be afraid to say stupid things if your imagination hints at it. I'm curious about these consistencies in our universe and would love to dig deeper and explore any implications it may have. Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4dFbb5j4I

 

[Aluisious]

Paint in water

Horsehead Nebula (A billion billion times bigger)

Very recurrent property of nature. Look up fractals.

 

[T-1 Thunder]

Could this reflect a "plan" by nature?
Could it possibly lend a hint to humans and how we live?

Maybe, instead of SF and LA, people should live in clumps with space in between?

(thank you for the pictures, they are beautiful and if anyone has a soul, they touch it)

 

[VicTim]

Residule LSD effects.:nerd

 

[Bronto]

Golden Ratio is interesting to spot in Nature.

 

[T-1 Thunder]

Residule LSD effects.:nerd

Did you watch the youtube video? You're sober and it still happens.
:thumbup

 

[V4]

i'm no gynecologist but maybe the algae is trying to pretend it's a tiger so you won't dive in the bucket....:dunno

 

[CABilly]

I'd imagine the beard hair scattering and clumping in water has to do with polarity (polar water and non-polar oil on hair) and surface tension (hair spreads to the edges of the water). My pea brain won't let me get more specific than that.

The ϕ in nature thing has always been a trip to me, though... Someone had an interesting thought I saw the other day on facebook. "Is the speed of light the refresh rate of the universe?" It's a silly little ponderance, but I was still all.. :confused

 

[Ant]

 

[PYRO]

you're tripping, buddy.

But, it's all good

enjoy the trip:thumbup

cause, after all is said and done,



pause for effect


you only get one

 

[T-1 Thunder]

The patterns don't stop. Anywhere you look, you get a reflection of the fact that things combine in areas to leave gaps in between.

Look at clouds on a good day where they're all like stripes. They group together to form lines with space between, just like the arms of the milky way.

There's something to it, I tell ya's. Something to it, alright. We just gotta open our eyes and minds.

I keep messin with this bucket, and the same damn lines keep happenin'. I ain't on acid, so can't blame that anymore...

Now click the link to my video already so you know and see I'm not trippin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4dFbb5j4I

Tiger pattern before and after messin with the bucket...

 

[Cycle61]

youtu.be/KHnkb-Lx1_s

 

[Abacinator]

Fractals, baby! Yeah! Nature is awesome, and better at math than anyone will ever be. Math is the language of the universe! I wish I understood it But planned? Nah. It's all just repetition and chance.

 

[kevin 714]

my avatar seems to fit in here

 

[T-1 Thunder]

Kevin, no matter how much I may disagree with you on any earthly subject, we are together on subjects beyond earth, bro. :thumbup

 

[PYRO]

The patterns don't stop. Anywhere you look, you get a reflection of the fact that things combine in areas to leave gaps in between.

Look at clouds on a good day where they're all like stripes. They group together to form lines with space between, just like the arms of the milky way.

There's something to it, I tell ya's. Something to it, alright. We just gotta open our eyes and minds.

I keep messin with this bucket, and the same damn lines keep happenin'. I ain't on acid, so can't blame that anymore...

Now click the link to my video already so you know and see I'm not trippin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4dFbb5j4I

Tiger pattern before and after messin with the bucket...

so why are the last 4 numbers on the license plate I recieved from the DMV the same as an old PIN, that I use for all my passwords?

I don't know. Either it's a coincidence, or, somebody is playing games.
I mean, what are the odds? Ten thousand to one, if you want to be exact.

but, sometimes,
I think, somebody is playing games.

And, laughing their ass off

 

[Aluisious]

The patterns don't stop. Anywhere you look, you get a reflection of the fact that things combine in areas to leave gaps in between.

I know y'all like to make fun of T-1 here (double rainbow all the way!) but he really is onto a question that physics at the highest level is asking. No one knows why this has happened:

Those are galaxy filaments, the largest structures we have observed in the universe. They are too big to be explained by any forces or processes we currently understand. The Sloan Great Wall is over a billion light years across.

 

[2old2fly]

Anyone else craving cheese pizza after seeing that?

 

[kevin 714]

T-1 if you really are into the idea of why things tend to clump as opposed to be evenly spread out, i suggest loking into the COBE satelite imagery. if that tickles your fancy, and you really want to get deep into some cosmology and the nature of the univrese and why things tends to clump, look up the book

wrinkles in time:witness to the birth of the universe. by george smoot. hawkings called it the best scientific discovery of the century


http://www.amazon.com/Wrinkles-Time...4443/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1288937734&sr=8-2

cosmology is one of my greatest loves and you can find quite a few good books out there that can explain the concepts without needing some of the advanced physics and mathematics skills.

 

[Aluisious]

It's all just repetition and chance.

Maaaaybe not. The Universe has the potential to be way weirder than anyone has imagined. Think to what people knew about the world in 1000 AD, vs now with quantum mechanics, relativity, astrophysics, and the Standard Model. The science required to create GPS was incomprehensible a century ago.

Imagine what we could discover in a thousand or a million years.