Absolutely Incredible!!! Thank you for making this video! They're like spontaneous, once-living cathedral architectures. Mind blowing. I've never seen anything like them in such detail.
Fantastic.... Love Radiolaria and Protista and Foraminifera and Ernst Haeckel .... Just had my art students paint these. July 2020, thank you for your hard work in showing these and close ups. WOW... what a world.
Thank you. It is my pleasure. They are a tricky thing to get good images of - super fragile. The wonderful pictures you see are the 1 in a 1000 examples. Most samples are just fragments. I spent hours peering at diatomaceous earth and found only one half decent image! Glad you have enjoyed the microscopy.
Learned about radiolaria from Ernst Haekel's art. I noticed that some of them take on similar shapes to those shown in cymatics which lead me to a theory/hypothesis that they were formed through sound waves traveling through and structuring the matter in the water.
An interesting idea. But not sure it stands up to scrutiny on a few levels. For starters, the scale of the structures is so very small the sound wave lengths would need to be fantastically high and water is rubbish with high frequency sound. It's the reason whale song is all low notes. But you are right - there is a similarity of structures (sometimes) and I suggest this is more to do with the underlying mathematics of how to pack circles in three dimensions. Which then makes you wonder is the maths a cause or just a result of the pattern? And then you get onto the philosophy of "are number real". And that's where I go for a cuppa tea as that stuff makes my head hurt.
Thanks for making this content. I’ve been studying all sorts of things. In the book of Enoch it talks about wheels inside wheels with eyes all over it. The first specimen made me think about that.
Just amazing, such an intricate forms! And yet, they are living things produced by mother-nature! Imagine how these creatures might be inspiring for jewellers
I'm working on the Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE), & I noticed that these "Radiolarians" almost take part in all samples that I've already made their thin sections! Since I am a pure sedimentologist and frankly very immature about rads, and since I have no idea about the exact age of the study strata which is necessary for determining the kind of OAEs (1a, b,..), I wonder if these rads can be useful in order to determine the age or/and my event/s?
Honestly - I suspect you know as much, if not more, about radiolaria as I do. So, I'm afraid I can't really help you. Thanks for watching the video though
Absolutely Incredible!!! Thank you for making this video! They're like spontaneous, once-living cathedral architectures. Mind blowing. I've never seen anything like them in such detail.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic.... Love Radiolaria and Protista and Foraminifera and Ernst Haeckel .... Just had my art students paint these. July 2020, thank you for your hard work in showing these and close ups. WOW... what a world.
Thank you. It is my pleasure. They are a tricky thing to get good images of - super fragile. The wonderful pictures you see are the 1 in a 1000 examples. Most samples are just fragments. I spent hours peering at diatomaceous earth and found only one half decent image! Glad you have enjoyed the microscopy.
Very cool and absolutely dig your enthusiasm. Much appreciated by us!
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Learned about radiolaria from Ernst Haekel's art. I noticed that some of them take on similar shapes to those shown in cymatics which lead me to a theory/hypothesis that they were formed through sound waves traveling through and structuring the matter in the water.
An interesting idea. But not sure it stands up to scrutiny on a few levels. For starters, the scale of the structures is so very small the sound wave lengths would need to be fantastically high and water is rubbish with high frequency sound. It's the reason whale song is all low notes. But you are right - there is a similarity of structures (sometimes) and I suggest this is more to do with the underlying mathematics of how to pack circles in three dimensions. Which then makes you wonder is the maths a cause or just a result of the pattern? And then you get onto the philosophy of "are number real". And that's where I go for a cuppa tea as that stuff makes my head hurt.
Thanks for making this content. I’ve been studying all sorts of things. In the book of Enoch it talks about wheels inside wheels with eyes all over it. The first specimen made me think about that.
That was brilliant, Thank you… Truly fascinating!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing thanks
Just amazing, such an intricate forms! And yet, they are living things produced by mother-nature! Imagine how these creatures might be inspiring for jewellers
Well said!
Amazing thank you so much
You're welcome 😊
The Diatom holes remind me of a sunflower arrangement with a golden ratio of a turn for a new hole.
Same maths - same biology ;-)
I Love it! Distracted me from a nicotine fit good job~!
This is so cray
Indeed...
Notice the Fibonacci geometry at 8:08?
I'm working on the Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE), & I noticed that these "Radiolarians" almost take part in all samples that I've already made their thin sections! Since I am a pure sedimentologist and frankly very immature about rads, and since I have no idea about the exact age of the study strata which is necessary for determining the kind of OAEs (1a, b,..), I wonder if these rads can be useful in order to determine the age or/and my event/s?
Honestly - I suspect you know as much, if not more, about radiolaria as I do. So, I'm afraid I can't really help you. Thanks for watching the video though