(word processor parameters LM=8, RM=78, TM=2, BM=2) Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501 Sponsored by Vangard Sciences PO BOX 1031 Mesquite, TX 75150 August 22, 1990 Another Snow Job from Nature Jan. 89' with Vangard comments No two snowflakes are alike. That's a "bit of folk wisdom that is generally accepted even among those few regarded as experts in the subject," says Nancy Knight, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. So much for folk wisdom. As part of a study of cirrus clouds for NASA, Knight found two crystals with IDENTICAL STRUCTURES. During a research flight into a Wisconsin snowstorm, she collected some snowflakes on a glass slide coated with oil. MORE THAN A YEAR LATER she re-examined the photos of the flakes and noted the similarity. Not only that, the shape of the crystals - which have thick asymmetrical hollow columns in the center - is unlike anything she's observed before or found in the literature. She reported her findings in the May Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. With the coming of colder weather, interest in her findings has been, well, snowballing. Crystals such as Knight found begin as solid hexagonal prisms and, due to the effects of temperature, humidity and fall rate, develop hollows in their centers. That happens because growth on a crystal's face is faster on the edges than at the center. Past observations have shown that the hollows are symmetrical on both ends of the crystal. The hollows Knight found are not, suggesting that the crystals DID NOT FALL HORIZONTALLY, as usual, BUT VERTICALLY. The old folk wisdom may still have a basis, Knight said. It's possible that at the MOLECULAR level no two snowflakes are alike. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Vangard comments... Vibrating waveplates or surfaces take on geometric forms dependent on the interferences which occur between the wavefronts. These were discovered and investigated by Ernst Chladni and later researched by Dr. Hans Jenny. A sonic field of any complexity (determined by the number of frequencies involved) can be projected into the air, as indeed happens with speakers in our stereo systems. In 1926, Dr. Henri Coanda discovered a wall-attachment phenomenon now known as the Coanda effect. Whenever a jet flows into a body of stagnant fluid, it entrains some of the surrounding stagnant Page 1 fluid and starts it into motion. As the fluid is ejected, replenishing air moves into the evacuated region to create a pressure differential. The pressure in this region is at a high vacuum (very cold area) which is utilized as a basis for the machines which create "snow". Now, if at the formation nozzle of the snow machine, we were to project an intense sonic field having a specific geometric form, all snowflakes formed at that location would be identical, since they are all formed in the same controlling field. An interesting idea since each snowflake is a crystal. If all the crystals were "tuned" in such a manner, then we would form a giant crystal which might have unusual and "tuneable" properties. Of course, these properties would be wholly dependent on the geometry of the snowflakes. In the case of Ms. Knights' identical snowflakes, we find it of interest that they were not examined for a period in excess of one year. Were they the same when originally captured on the oil slide? Is it not possible that one snowflake was vibrating at one frequency and at high amplitude while in the presence of another snowflake which was vibrating at a lower amplitude and a DIFFERENT FREQUENCY? In such a case, the weaker snowflake would be "entrained" or forced to vibrate at the more powerful frequency which, over time (one year), would cause a definite transmutation into a copy of the stronger sonic field. The natural formation of snowflakes then leads us to a possible new technique for monitoring subtle energies, whether acoustic, magnetic or electric. Using a machine like a Coanda driven snow generator, we could project Radionic, homeopathic, acoustic or other types of complex energy forms to see the results as encoded in matter. We would then see a 2 dimensional Mandala representative of the 3 dimensional form. When "replayed" it would again generate a 3 dimensional matrix identical to the original. (for further reading on this subject try VEDA1.ZIP and CHLADNI1.ZIP on the KeelyNet) -------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have comments or other information relating to such topics as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page. Thank you for your consideration, interest and support. Jerry W. 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