Where do hexagonal structures come from in nature?
Where do hexagonal structures come from in nature?

Video: Where do hexagonal structures come from in nature?

Video: Where do hexagonal structures come from in nature?
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Many researchers of the mysteries of nature have paid attention to the fact that many stone and living plant structures have a hexagonal shape.

The most famous is the honeycomb:

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This tree stump ("Devil's Tower" in Wyoming, USA) consists of 6 coal vertical stone fibers:

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The Giant's Trail in Ireland:

Etc. Strange, but for some reason no one got the hang of where such a 6 coal shape comes from. Or I haven't found one. If I'm not the first - give a link in the comments.

The answer is simple. It's geometric. Let's start with the fact that if we expand the same circles on a plane, or even easier - identical coins, and if we press them all together from all sides, then they will expand in the form of hexagons.

If you take only 2 coins, then they just stand next to each other.

If you take 3 coins - they will be in the shape of a triangle, 4 - in the shape of a square, but there is a lot of empty space between them. 5 - in the form of a pentagon with an even larger empty space between them. And such a 5-sided shape is not stable - when exposed to any side, they will creep away.

And now we come to 6 coins. When pressed evenly on all sides, they will stand in a very unstable hexagon with very large empty space between them.

But! The seventh coin fits perfectly into the empty space between 6 coins and the structure becomes absolutely stable with a minimum area of empty space between coins:

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It is impossible to destroy this structure at all. Whichever side it is influenced from, it will not be able to change its hexagonal shape, but the entire structure can move or turn, maintaining this shape. But, one part of the structure cannot move relative to another.

That is, the hexagonal shape is explained not by nature, not by reason, but by ordinary geometry - the mathematical properties of space.

Such a structure arises naturally when the same round elements interact.

A circle is a natural natural shape, when all points of the perimeter are equal - they are neither vertices nor faces, but simply points equidistant from the center.

But how do these rings turn into hexagons? Where do the roundings go? This happens if the rings are flexible and if they begin to "swell" from the inside. Then the rings are pressed against each other by internal pressure and straighten along 6 lines of contact with each of 6 adjacent rings.

But, in the transition from ideal figures to living nature, we no longer operate with perfectly circular circles and not the same size. But, out of a large variety of homogeneous natural elements, approximately all are the same. Some of them are larger than the average by a certain amount, and some are smaller by the same amount.

Therefore, natural structures, in contrast to geometric ones, are not so even beautiful ideal hexagons, but, nevertheless, hexagons. Not all hexagons, of course. Some will be heptagons, some will be five, but, on average, most will be hexagons.

Now the question is - where do a lot of similar approximately identical elements come from, for example, on the Devil's Tower? Pavel Ulyanov (WakeUpHuman) and his followers, who raised this topic, believe and convincingly, in my opinion, prove that these are petrified ancient giant trees. More precisely, the petrified stumps remaining from them.

And trees are made up of many threads growing upward. These threads, expanding, gradually begin to touch the neighbors, and, due to their geometric properties, they automatically line up in hexagons.

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