Pattern Formation in Nature

[freemanx2x]

If you put some powder or sand on an oval vibrating plate, for certain frequencies you will get patterns that will resemble to a turtle shell pattern ... !

[Melehete]

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[imegatrone]

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[littlep656]

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[sijothankam]

very small change can give an extra ordinary structure...when you said that... I thought about your parents....

[lucusinfabula]

Delighted,



[psusac]

Cute and smart! Great video, thanks for making it!

[TwinFlameify]

Loved the video, thank you,

What ifwe changed the way we percieve the pattern/s. What if we get out of the participation and join the viewer part of it, you will begin to realize that new patterns and rules of engagement are formed, just as the atom is in one place when we view it and in many places when we dont view it.

Same with light and all other fundementals of 3rd reality and the way we percieve it...

[otonanoC]

MOAR!

[4444est1]

Awesome video! Thank you!

[TheFRAMECube]

or... the pattern shows a designer. Occams Razor. It is more likely that a creative act made the patterns than patterns forming randomly...er.. the same.

[prsaledja]

@TheFRAMECube that would be correct but you're forgetting that this creative act would be done by some intelligence (god i presume) which is in turn infinitely complex so i'm not sure how is this "simpler" explanation is standing against occam in your oppinion?!?

[TheFRAMECube]

@prsaledja It isnt the source that makes this the simplest answer, its the process of creation ex nihilo. Evolution is a complex process (and utterly nonsense) but if a being can speak things into existence, it makes it much simpler and therefore occams razor applies.

[prsaledja]

@TheFRAMECube even though it is utterly false i could get down to your level to demonstrate flaws in your logic. if we assume that your explanation is simpler i.e. more probable than mine than i can suggest even more simple explanation: things poof into existence spontaneously. so by your logic this is simpler and therefore more probable... so either way you're wrong...

oh...and btw. i could bet 100$ you don't have even basic understanding of evolution....no offense....

[NapalmDragonFly]

Please don't take this the wrong way.

But you are a very beautiful woman, and listening to your articulate understanding of self organizing models is really sexy.

I know this can sound creepy, but it's not meant to be.

You know what you're talking about and what you're saying is very relevant.

[EltBerserker]

@NapalmDragonFly i concur with this

[onikatama]

Interessting!! especially that I'm using some of the patterns of nature in my architecture projects, like voronoï ...etc...

thx for the video :)

[aaroncoleman3]

Thank you for this! The more minimal the slope the of the land the higher the sinuousity. "Mappy" haha

[dwyllie]

Beautiful Eyes. :)

[neoneoneofu]

Nice video! Can crop circles also be exlained by similar mechanisms? It would be much more believeable than the theory that aliens make them :)

[mallamoozoo]

if u mean "stochastic" then SAY it that way - there's a T in in it you know?!

[mallamoozoo]

What the fuck do you keep going on about sarcstic? it doesnt make sense for fuck sake

[SentientMachines]

Excellent Video :-)

[Vektor3000]

Красивая Девушка

[jimgauth]

I'm going to use your video for a discussion on emergence with friends. well done.

[Koshy2]

Neat video, and cute video maker.

[vkpillay]

Yes, at core complexity has its own simplicity.self orgsanising criticality, another word for emergence.I used to think how to model structure of snow fall when i first encontered it almost 3 decades ago when i did an experiment to calculate water from snow fall.When i been to dubai ,i experienced sand dunes,and i also came up with the the reason why the jeeps are able to ride without falling.

Read frontiers of complexity by coveney ,highfield and how nature works by per bak ,the physicist.

[Kaandorpius]

Stop using the word "random",..you yourself have already stated the "laws/conditions" that are required for the process and its final result.

There is no thing as chance or coincidence outside the mind.

[skibby]

Shut

UP

[Kaandorpius]

Shut up?

Go fuck yourself.

[skibby]

Evolve, douche bag

[Kaandorpius]

Evolve? What,.. into an asshole like you?

I rather not, there are plenty of assholes like yourself out there already so you dont have to feel lonely.

[toamaori]

Great Video!! :)

[NothingsPerfect]

Good lord; I think I'm in love! UCLA doesn't offer a Complexity Science major but I took every class they had on it anyway!

[fabbio8888]

Maybe you can take some advantage from pictures sent by Phoenix spacecratf landed in a region with similar poligonal pattern?

[transingularprime]

Illustration at 4:53 looks like smoke. River water moves through land like smoke from incense through air. Rhombus!

[NWM11Bravo]

are you talking about biological complexity or geological complexity?

[NWM11Bravo]

interesting......you get an A for Atheist LOL

its good to see people who do there home work ,and actually take the time to explain an argument with facts and cool pictures of the examples ...most people come back with harsh words and vague comments

[broj8s8n79]

Oh yea, EMERGENCE!! IF specified complexity came from repetitive order, there would be no other choice BUT to call it an emergence. Thats a just so story. What I want to know is, can you tell me specifically HOW nature can cross the barrier between common order to specified complexity? In other words, how does nature get from something like this sequence (ABGJABGJABGJ) to Shakespear without "Outsude assistance"?

[broj8s8n79]

Hello PaPookie, it seems that you make some leaps in logic. You have a lot of good examples of order in nature and also there is chemical order. Salt crystals are a good example. There are things like the ice formation you mentioned and any and all crystaline structures. Nature gives rise to this, no doubt. But there is a difference in these examples and those in biological entities. First you ask "How can a system increase in complexity" on it's own? However, complexity itself is not the issue.

[broj8s8n79]

'Specified complexity' is. Non-life= Only repetitiveness, low information content (Shannon's information theory), High regularity. Life= High information content, High irregularity, non-repetitiveness. There is a point here that atheistic evolutionists, such as yourself, cannot escape. And that is, if you could explain the sequencing in DNA and proteins as a result of self organization, you would only end up with something like a crystal of salt, where there is merely a repetitive sequence.

[Aro2220]

i'd love to marry a girl like this one day. intelligent, beautiful and curious. just like me :)

[h8uall66]

What a great video. I have argued time and again that intelligence is not required for complexity and that order can arise from chaos through natural processes alone for ever now. I already have plenty of examples but I never even knew about these examples.

[miighankurt]

are your eyes blue or green?

[BrachioInGen]

excellent. Another form of emergence. Even though there are genes that we say trigger eye color, there is also genetic material around the genes that seem to affect the color of ones eyes as well, triggering changes within the eye color and pattern.

[Engior]

You make good points. . However, at the begining you point out that chage are not governed by any force, they are self generated. I bleave that any change in the nature is associated with some sort of egegy, or force. A change with out energy is not possible. Keeping in mind that matter is a form of energy.

[BrachioInGen]

a change without energy is seen in certain forms of matter such as Bose- Einstein condensation. For all intensive purposes, in such a case, there is no energy but because of tiny variations in the quantum structure, the supercooled liquid begins to flow on its own and show these quantum level changes on a macroscopic level.

[Engior]

BrachiolnGen. Thank you for you reply. I certainly have not touched the aria of change without energy in my life; therefore, I do not have much to say here. If super cooled liquid flows. Flow is usually associated with gravitational pull. And gravity is considered to be a force that produced potential energy due to height.

[BrachioInGen]

well that's the thing, it flows against gravity. It in essence, flows against all the forces of nature. Look it up. It ends up "flowing" along the edges of the container until it covers the inside of the container... I guess similar to how water will climb up a paper towel, it climbs up the material that holds it.

[Yakshinian]

Straw man argument. You select a weak point which is made by some creationists and imply that all creationists hold the same view.

[BrachioInGen]

Most I've spoken to and most of the more outspoken evangelicals say this very argument so I don't see how this is anything but valid.

[BrachioInGen]

actually, it's not a straw man argument. Straw man implies using an argument that is falsely understood or oversimplified. There is nothing more to simplify the creationist argument than "God made the world. This is evident by its complexity." Just becuase you don't believe it as a creationist (my guess here that you are one) doesn't mean that most of them don't believe it.

[Yakshinian]

Yeah, unfortunately most christians rely on faith in their preachers rather than using a more logical approach. If one begins to believe the Bible is a true book, it makes more sense to believe the rationale of the bible rather than of the indoctrinated.

[Yakshinian]

I percieve it as a strawman argument against the bible rather than against the general mass which claims to study it. Perhaps I was being a little defensive.

[Yakshinian]

For example, where in the bible does it say the righteous go to heaven. I have yet to find a place, and "christians" have yet to show me a place that clearly indicates that. Yet they still believe despite strong and clear evidence in the Bible to the contrary that their relatives are all in heaven smiling down at them.

[BrachioInGen]

true. It says however that those who do god's will and follow jesus (who is the narrow path) will enter the gates of heaven. God's will changes depending on what part of the Bible your in unfortunately lol... and on what your "understanding/" personal observation of what god's will is...

[Yakshinian]

Where does it say that? (Please tell me, I will look it up immediately.) If you use a concordance you may find that the word was a inaccurate translation of a word which originally meant kingdom. AFAIK, the Bible is consistent in saying that the righteous will inherit the *land* forever.

[BrachioInGen]

I'll have to find it myself. Try bible dot com. Look up Jesus or something like "I am the way, the truth, and the life. Those who follow me will inherit the kingdom of God." then there's another story where jesus talks about it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle (which was an actual place btw, a very small entrance to a town) than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. and If I remember right that story talks about Jesus being the narrow way.

[Yakshinian]

There is an overwhelming amount of proof in the Bible that the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God are the same and that it will be established on the earth. A quick google search brought up a webpage which very clearly points out some of the evidence. " truegospel[dot]org/index[dot]c­fm/fuseaction/Basics[dot]tour/­ID/4/Where-Will-Kingdom-Be-Est­ablished[dot]htm " of course replacing [dot] with an actual period.

[Yakshinian]

I especially like paragraph six on that webpage. Paragraph seven is also an excelent point.

[boomfist]

wow. you must be a mathematician's wet dream. good video!

[thethikboy]

I majored in math and the concept of information is a mathematical one applied to biology. So she's more of a nightmare

[thethikboy]

The kind of complexity you're talking about is simply geometric. There are other kinds of complexity - like the spirals of DNA which are information-complex, like a computer.

[BrachioInGen]

be careful calling DNA information. It's not. A lot of people fall into this trap and a lot of creationists use it to their advantage by saying that a computer cannot self organize. But the difference is that DNA is more like a mold to make something. A literal blue-print/mold. To call it information dances the line of being a false statement.

[thethikboy]

It's not a mold. It is code. That is precisely what the nucleotides sequences are.

It is literally the program for building new cells. This is a mathematical certainty, not a creationist delusion.

[BrachioInGen]

BUT to call it information is dangerous. A lot of people call it "information," like an "encyclopedia." This is then taken by creations, perhaps too straw man like, and say "Encyclopedias cannot randomly assmeble themselves and be coherent. Therefore, DNA cannot do that." I think of it more like a mold since in order to replicate, create enzymes and the like, the nucleotides must connect to it and "fit" into place, like how one must fit clay into a mold.

[thethikboy]

Why is 'information content' dangerous. Because it undermines bogus materialistic assumptions? Gosh darn that's too bad.

It is a hard scientific concept with a mathematical definition, used by geneticists.

Look it up.

[BrachioInGen]

exactly what clifut said... it is not just information is it also, like I said, something that literally produces what it has information yes. It also can self accumulate and create itself in a certain situation. An encyclopedia cannot.

[thethikboy]

Your point being?

[BrachioInGen]

My point being calling it an encyclopedia is simply an invitation to be told "Well, an encyclopedia cannot make it self so therefore DNA cannot!" It's a very common religious argument. So being precise in your analogies is important.

[thethikboy]

"It's a very common religious argument."

It isn't my analogy and I've never heard this kind of argument.

If there is any argument it should be that DNA has an information content that far exceeds the probability due to chance. No analogy required.

[BrachioInGen]

lol... in your opinion.

[thethikboy]

No. Not simply an opinion. It is a probabilistic fact.

[BrachioInGen]

Probabilistic fact? The whole point of this video is to say that there are patterns in nature, things that when you or I look at them, we can see not but God. But in actuality, they are quite complex answers to even more complex stimuli. It's been proven that DNA can self produce in a certain substrate in the ocean AND within that as well, connect and begin to form basic DNA chains and take on lipid shells.

[thethikboy]

I know what the point of the video is. It minimizes the concept of information which is a hard scientifically defined concept.

It isn't an analogy to books or works of writing.

Information content is statistically (probabilistically) defined.

So you are misinformed.

[BrachioInGen]

I didn't say it was but many people do say information "like an encyclopedia," which is misleading. That's why I say use caution when using the word. You may not have run up against such resistance, but it is out there and the second you say that, they will feel you have walked into their pre-laid trap and will cyclically argue with you about the assertion.

[thethikboy]

"like an encyclopedia". It's actually more like a computer program, since DNA is code for the genome, carrying the instructions fro building types of cells. What is 'dangerous' is to trivialize this information content by simply calling it 'complexity'.

[BrachioInGen]

So as I said, do not use the word fact like it puts up a wall around an argument that holds no water. It is your opinion and that of those who don't quite see the possibilities in the universe. Granted, the cell as we know it today could not have been produced in the first step. Similarly the novel Jurassic Park, although written in a short story form as MC was a child, took many years to create the complex story. So yes, you are right. And no, you are brilliantly wrong.

[thethikboy]

" We define a measure of the information (R sequence) in the sequence patterns at binding sites. It allows one to investigate how information is distributed across the sites and to compare one site to another. One can also calculate the amount of information (R frequency) that would be required to locate the sites, given that they occur with some frequency in the genome. Several Escherichia coli binding sites were analyzed using these two independent empirical measurements. "

[thethikboy]

" Several Escherichia coli binding sites were analyzed using these two independent empirical measurements. The two amounts of information are similar for most of the sites we analyzed. In contrast, bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase binding sites contain about twice as much information as is necessary for recognition by the T7 polymerase, suggesting that a second protein may bind at T7 promoters. The extra information can be accounted for by a strong symmetry element found at the T7 promoters"

[thethikboy]

"around an argument that holds no water"

That is false and hardly an argument. Information content is a mathematically measurable fact whether you like it or not.

[broj8s8n79]

Opinion? Have you read any biology books lately?

[cliftut]

DNA holds data. Data, when put through a particular function, produces information, in the same way that an encoded message is useless unless you know how to decode it. The tricky thing about DNA is that it contains both the data and the function. When chemical data is added (chemicals used to make proteins), the function (in this case the natural linking of base pairs) uses the data (the order of bases) produce proteins.

[thethikboy]

Your point being?

[broj8s8n79]

Encyclopedia is exactly the word Dawkin's used in his book, "The Blind Watchmaker".

[broj8s8n79]

Tell that to the likes of Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawkings.

[xylophilous]

Great video! Thank you for sharing your excellent knowledge. Please, consider including the emergent patterns of bird flocks and fish schools, etc.

[PaPookie]

That stuff is really cool too! Each element (animal) follows a very simple rule & you get spontaneous symmetry breaking.

[xylophilous]

Great video! Thank you for sharing your excellent knowledge. Please, consider including the emergent patterns of bird flocks and fish schools, etc.

[CorndogMaker]

who is this woman? I'm in love.

[bashirwanazir]

Hi I am working on my master dEgree in Achitectural philosofy ,And my subject handle the natural patterns so please if you have more videos or pictures or refrence it would be so helpful,thank you

[Roysito]

i love you, you're so smart and cute!

[RhinosoRoss]

Yup, keep up the cute enthusiasm and everyone will want to learn from you!

[rinconpr78]

Isn't it cool that patterns also emerge from smooth initial conditions, like in the case of Rayleigh Benard convection, without any stochastic forcing! Incredible video!

[kstrahmx]

Excellent. Who needs the supernatural when the natural world can inspire such awe?

[groovyguru72]

consistent in width that is...

[groovyguru72]

excellent explanation about river meandering. you should also mention that while the outside is being eroded due fast moving water, that on the inside of the curve there is sediment being dropped in the slow current. therefore the river is not constantly getting wider and wider at the bend, but staying pretty much consistent.

next time you should due a lecture as broom ninja!

[PaPookie]

Nice point.  Thanks for watching!

[subach]

You see our lord only makes think look like they can form patterns, just like our lord tricks biologist into believing evolution, by modifying the evidence. Our lord of course being the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the one true God.

Great vid, I used to think geology was just for rock hounds. btw Smart women are sexy.

[yombotolompi]

Fascinating! Thanks. Is there more you could wax poetic over? I recognize shapes common to my painting and drawing when I'm intending randomness (sheesh)!

[samsarajade]

River Meandering! What a lovely phrase! Nature sure is fascinating :)

[Mudhooks]

Excellent video. I wish I had access to things like this when I was in school.... I loved geography and earth processes (especially glaciation -- a lot of galcial forms to study in my part of the world!) when I was in high school. Mom was a geography teacher so it kinda rubbed off on me.

[kenrg]

Very cool - I thought that river meandering also had to do with flood cycles and gradient, i.e. plains rivers meander more than mountain rivers. Anyway, interesting, I learned a lot.

[periurban]

Nice video.

[Nalora]

fantastic

[lukettylwillie]

the subject matter is really interesting when you describe it...why i dont know lol...just consult the other comments of this video:)

[youlovetravis]

this is, by far, the hottest damned lecture i've ever had. please come over and just talk at me, it makes me feel special. word.

[clockworkhorrorshow]

So sweet, so smart, so sexy! Your videos are the best!

[bdbaritone]

amazing...

your videos are awesome!! you're hot. haha. keep it up.

[AngryAtheist]

That's damn cool stuff. Just freakin' wicked.

[abortedsoul]

I love science... If I lived in the dark ages, I probably would have gotten my ass burned at the stake for trying to fight for enlightenment.

[PaPookie]

Wait a few years. The way things are going, you might get your chance.