Why Are Snowflakes Six-Cornered? ❄️

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Snowflakes, why they all six-cornered?

[00:00:02]Why they all >> [music] >> similar? Um and it's actually extremely deep question um for for many reasons.

[00:00:08]One is that you it's a 20th [music] century answer. It's to do with the water molecule and quantum mechanics and all these things we discovered in the 20th century. So, he couldn't have answered it. But one of the most important things is that at the end of the book [music] he says, "I don't know the answer." He said he writes, you know, "I leave it to to [music] you to" it's actually to his benefactor this uh who who wrote the book to but also to future generations to to to find out.

[00:00:32]And if you think about progress, [music] I've seen it written that progress was invented pretty much around that time.

[00:00:37]You know, real progress [music] starts we we start about 400 years after that we're, you know, flying to the stars.

[00:00:43][music] But for progress, you need to accept there are things you don't know.

[00:00:48]>> [music] >> Is that why you describe certainty as something brutish? I Yeah, I say yeah that at the end of the show actually I say that um we [music] we we live in a world where the silence necessary for progress is drowned out by the vulgar noise of certainty. And it's it is it's a it's a noise. If you So, if you think about if if you think you know everything, you cannot make progress.

[00:01:11]And the idea that that was radical only a few centuries ago is is really central to the show. I say right at the start and we're going to focus on a lot of things that we don't know because that's what