2006-12-09 18:49:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Yes they have. They have checked every single snow flake that has fallen to this earth. Absolutely amazing huh?
2006-12-09 19:00:27 · answer #1 · answered by Shellback 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously no such check has been done, but accumulation of a snowflake is a statistical process among trillions of molecules. It is possible that two could turn out to be the same, but the probability is less than one occurrence over the entire earth during billions of times longer than the age of the universe.
2006-12-10 02:53:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't need to check every one. THEORETICALLY, there MAY be two snowflakes that are the same, but that is very unlikely, since each snowflake is composed of different amounts of atoms and other factors that determine their shape. To have two snowflakes with the exact same makeup is very unlikely.
2006-12-10 02:54:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe there are a lot of solutions to in terms of the way a snow flake can crystallize but there is no reason why two identical crystallization patterns can't occur. Or that two snow flakes can't be identical right down to having the same atomic composition.
2006-12-10 04:09:08 · answer #4 · answered by Josh M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋