Amazing Snowflakes

"And it was then that all these kinds of things received their shapes from the Ordering One, through the action of Ideas of Numbers" (Plato: in Timaeus). Indeed, Hamilton's 'Principle of Least Action is mathematical discrimination between inorganic and organic systems. The geometrical progression of organic life has the property of producing by simple addition, a succession of numbers or similar shapes making the homothetic (gnomonic) growth-work by 'imbibition' (outwards). Whereas, inorgan...