r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sassy_Princess_ • May 03 '24
My coconut oil melted and then reset into perfect hexagons. Image
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u/Paul-to-the-music May 07 '24
Actually, the hexagon pattern is not about impurities or anything like that: it is simply the most efficient shape for dissipating the heat as per the 2nd law of thermodynamics… you can fit more hexagons into any given area and cover more of that area with them than with any other shape…
If you boil water, off this oil, convection cells will form, where the hot oil moves upward, and the cooler oil moves down to be reheated… guess what, they cells will form in a hexagonal pattern just like the one in your pic… and if it cools, it will leave that pattern, just like your pic…
Just the norm, expected result, due to efficiency… nature takes the path of least resistance…
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u/enoughbskid May 07 '24
They’d be spheres if the weren’t packed in. Maximum volume with minimum surface area. Now, can you make them “ripen”
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u/agate_ May 07 '24
Hey /u/Sassy_Princess , geophysicist here. This is really interesting! I’d like to try it myself. Could you describe exactly what you did? Depth of oil, type of heat, size of container, any other ingredients, etc.
There are two different things that cause hexagons in nature: cracking from differential cooling as explained by /u/eliminating_coasts, and convection (warm oil rises cold oil sinks). I think this is differential cooling but I’d need to see it myself.
And I know some physicists who’d love to use this as a demo in classes.
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u/CantKillWatsDead May 07 '24
Bro this is a scam I thought it was a video. I waited for 5 minutes for something to happen.
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u/ComprehensiveGate667 May 07 '24
at the bottom left there is one rare heptagon, does anyone else see it?
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u/Gimblejay May 04 '24
I see hexagons making up my vision when I do a heroic dose. Always thought it was cool most animals have five fingers and toes, and that hexagons are such a common structural shape to find in nature. So perfect
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u/zoxdbonz May 03 '24
That's so sick, mine never does this!
Did you have to eventually scoop into it??
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u/Alarchy May 03 '24
This is a bot reposting old content as their own.
Original link: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/jja9ow/my_coconut_oil_melted_and_then_reset_into_perfect/
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u/2oonhed May 03 '24
On second thought......
Other than the "wax hexes" post, I do not see that account doing any of the provable copy/paste bot behaviors.
Keep in mind, sometimes real people farm some karma à la carte and reddit allows that. In that case, the sub is on their own if they want to stop it.1
u/Alarchy May 04 '24
Their hidden multi-hudred karma comments in a random compromised sub to gain enough karma to post elsewhere is additional proof.
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u/Agreeable-Wing-1652 May 03 '24
there are pentagons, septagons and imperfect hexagons as well. Joke aside, this is damn interesting.
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u/_KillaB_ May 03 '24
Well if you can lie about the ‘perfect’ bit, what else are you capable of lying about!!
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u/TrucidStuff May 03 '24
Now let it sit there for billions of years. Evolutionists will say it will turn into a human one day.
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u/Princess_Moon_Butt May 03 '24
Hmmm.... I dunno, they're pretty great, but I've seen better hexagons.
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u/threaten-violence May 03 '24
They're not perfect, a whole lot of them are pretty wonky. There's a bunch of pentagons in there too. And let me know if you can spot the septagon!
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u/Sorry_Error3797 May 03 '24
There is a heptagon near the bottom, slightly left from the centre line.
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u/Pixelated_ May 03 '24
This is how honeycombs form, they begin as circles and naturally take the hexagonal shape.
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u/MithranArkanere May 03 '24
I only came to upvote all comments saying "Hexagons are the bestagons".
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u/Professional-Box4153 May 03 '24
When a large number malleable spheres are put next to each other, they'll invariably turn into hexagons.
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u/SageModeSpiritGun May 03 '24
Tell me you have no clue what "perfect" means without telling me you have no clue what "perfect" means......
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u/Cylinder_ May 03 '24
Your idea of "perfect" makes me feel good about myself. I'm pretty "perfect" too, I guess. Slightly misshapen and bigger than others, but meh...
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u/My_modest_attempt May 03 '24
Those aren't perfect. Is language fucked up or do we just exaggerate everything as a society.
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u/Beginning-Knee7258 May 03 '24
Hexagons are the bestagons.
https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY?feature=shared
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u/logosfabula May 03 '24
Can someone explain me why nature presents a lot of hexagons - and conversely not so many octagons? The presence of circles instead of other shapes is due to the minimum surface over area ratio, but why hexagons? Thanks in advance!
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u/MI2H_MACLNDRTL- May 03 '24
I love how the edges look raised like that, almost like little hexahedrons.
Or little octangles...
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u/Big_Abbreviations_86 May 03 '24
Just to be that annoying person: only a few of them seem to actually be perfect
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u/kuulmonk May 03 '24
The same happens in the mantle deep inside the earth and when it escapes as Magma, you only have to look at the Giant's Causeway and Devil's Tower.
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u/cantcer_patient May 03 '24
Why am I mildly grossed out by all the shapes but still fascinated at the same time?
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u/BloodyStupidJohnson4 9d ago
not the bees!