Why Nature Loves Hexagons

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    From spirals to spots to fractals, nature is full of interesting patterns. Many of these patterns even resemble geometric shapes. One of the most common? Hexagons. Why do we see this six-sided shape occur so many times in nature? This week we explore why hexagons are so common in the natural world, from honeycomb to bubbles to rocks, and what their mathematics, physics, and biology may have in common.
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    D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson. (1917) “On Growth and Form”
    Ball, Philip. (2009). “Shapes: nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts.” OUP Oxford.
    Karihaloo, B. L., Zhang, K., & Wang, J. (2013). Honeybee combs: how the circular cells transform into rounded hexagons. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 10(86), 20130299.
    Hofmann, Martin, et al. "Why hexagonal basalt columns?." Physical review letters 115.15 (2015): 154301.
    Aydin, Atilla, and James M. DeGraff. "Evolution of polygonal fracture patterns in lava flows." Science 239.4839 (1988): 471-476.
    Hayashi, Takashi, and Richard W. Carthew. "Surface mechanics mediate pattern formation in the developing retina." Nature 431.7009 (2004): 647.
    Kim, Sangwoo, et al. "Hexagonal Patterning of the Insect Compound Eye: Facet Area Variation, Defects, and Disorder." Biophysical journal 111.12 (2016): 2735-2746.
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Комментарии • 3,2 тыс.

  • @besmart
    @besmart  7 лет назад +691

    Thanks to Kelsey for helping me with this video! For a deeper dive into the math, go watch our collab over on Infinite Series! 📐🤓📏 ruclips.net/video/X8jOxEGVyPo/видео.html

    • @Mads026p
      @Mads026p 7 лет назад +4

      Go away Jake, this channel is for smart people ONLY.

    • @dahamgames3148
      @dahamgames3148 7 лет назад +2

      ImThaBadMan - Carlisos im not jake Paul broooo

    • @Mads026p
      @Mads026p 7 лет назад +3

      You've gotta prove it. What is England?

    • @MKD1101
      @MKD1101 7 лет назад +2

      Happy to be a part of intellectual union!

    • @user-lj3lj6ks1o
      @user-lj3lj6ks1o 7 лет назад +2

      Sir ,are great at your video presentation.hats off to you.
      Please make some videos on #time machine

  • @ishaanvatus3536
    @ishaanvatus3536 3 года назад +3135

    Hexagons are the Bestagons!

  • @personpacman7439
    @personpacman7439 3 года назад +2649

    Say it with me: Hexagons are the Bestagons

  • @bigsag_a
    @bigsag_a 3 года назад +339

    Hexagons, are the bestagons.

    • @thetruegavinator
      @thetruegavinator 3 года назад +1

      I'm the 70th like.

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 3 года назад

      0:58 Champagne hexagon bubbles for an hexagon region inside the Hexagon Country France lol

  • @Forenzikproductions
    @Forenzikproductions 3 года назад +420

    *Nature uses the least amount of energy to create the maximum amount of efficiency...* basically if it aint broke, don't fix it.

    • @antonio_ponce
      @antonio_ponce 2 года назад +2

      What?

    • @superbeaner4428
      @superbeaner4428 2 года назад +21

      @@antonio_ponce Basically nature forms around the hexagon shape since it naturally uses the least amount of energy which in turn also creates the maximum amount of efficiency in biology and in nature.
      Since it hasn't had to change because it's always worked extremely well "If it ain't broke don't fix it."

    • @kaushalsuvarna5156
      @kaushalsuvarna5156 2 года назад

      On the contrary, it keeps breaking, what sticks persists

    • @mariafe7050
      @mariafe7050 2 года назад +2

      And that's why hexagons are the bestagons.

    • @nerdy8644
      @nerdy8644 7 месяцев назад +2

      Energy follows the path of least resistance

  • @MinuteEarth
    @MinuteEarth 7 лет назад +866

    Nature would have a weird personal ad. Loves: Hexagons Hates: Vacuums

  • @rishusahu3361
    @rishusahu3361 4 года назад +824

    lesser energy
    lesser strain
    highest stability
    highest efficiency
    These 4 things can define all nature.

    • @cocolasticot9027
      @cocolasticot9027 4 года назад +21

      Except complex life forms, like us, formulating those theories.
      Isn't it ironic ?
      Following mathematics, we may just be the result of a wonderful dice roll.

    • @so9175
      @so9175 4 года назад +4

      sometimes lol

    • @greatwhitechocolate1482
      @greatwhitechocolate1482 4 года назад +9

      @@cocolasticot9027 I have to agree with you. Humans do random things, then again entropy is how all of life has evolved-- random mutations, where 99% were maladaptive to a changing environment, but less than 1% successfully adapted due to chance mutations.

    • @antoniusguntoro2052
      @antoniusguntoro2052 4 года назад +9

      It's kinda funny to think all of it just made by nature itself. I mean why all the nature choose or evolve to be the best of it's form? If we're all begin from nothing and universe, atom, and microorganism is just a lucky roll of dice it's just ridiculous. Doubtlessly it's God who made physics, maths, bios, and all of it.

    • @evolutionhasevidenceopinio5234
      @evolutionhasevidenceopinio5234 4 года назад +1

      @@antoniusguntoro2052 oh please enlighten us to your knowledge.
      I say YOUR FIRST HAND EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE?

  • @varvaramir
    @varvaramir 3 года назад +163

    *cgp grey has joined the chat*

    • @gallium-gonzollium
      @gallium-gonzollium 3 года назад +1

      Hexagons... are the bestagons.
      “Why?” You may ask.
      Well.. bees. Bees are the best and make the bestagon: the hexagon.
      Now I know what you might be thinking. “Bees produce hexagons because they’re hexapods with hexagon eyes. Why wouldn’t they do that otherwise?”
      That’s a good point.

  • @Omar_Ebrahim
    @Omar_Ebrahim 3 года назад +503

    These people have been in the bestagon cult before anyone did

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 3 года назад +1

      French created it lol 0:58 Champagne hexagon bubbles for an hexagon region inside the Hexagon Country France

    • @c0mput3r80y
      @c0mput3r80y 2 года назад

      I've been thinking this since Grey's video came out lol

  • @NoLifeButMyOwn
    @NoLifeButMyOwn 4 года назад +2596

    So basically, Amazon should be investing in hexagonal packaging.

    • @TeethHoarderr
      @TeethHoarderr 4 года назад +36

      Yes

    • @that_one_doggo8391
      @that_one_doggo8391 4 года назад +123

      You should also consider that with a rectangular package, for example a frame, you would need to use more material to make a hexagon big enough to fit it rather than a simple box. I would appreciate paper shavings rather than plastic bubbles and a smaller version of envelope, my new phone charger doesn't need an envelope bigger than a piece of printer paper

    • @pessimisticpianist582
      @pessimisticpianist582 4 года назад +3

      Yeah, lol.

    • @pessimisticpianist582
      @pessimisticpianist582 4 года назад +6

      @@that_one_doggo8391 Big brain🤯

    • @seamuspink9098
      @seamuspink9098 4 года назад +1

      YES!

  • @Di-xp7uc
    @Di-xp7uc 7 лет назад +2164

    If Vsauce did same video
    Video length: 24:00
    Thumbnail : white/black background, yellow Hexagon
    Title: what is Hexagon
    Contents:
    Pops up from under the table*
    Hey, Vsauce, Michael here. We'll know Hexagons have 6 angles, right..... Background music starts*
    .... Or does it?
    To know that we need to get through infinity. What's infinity?
    Infinity is...
    FOUR MINUTES LATER
    How do dogs communicate?
    TWO MINUTES LATER
    How big is Googol Plex?
    TEN MINUTES LATER
    We Humans are Alone in our brain
    SCARY BACKGROUND MUSIC STARTS*
    FOUR MINUTES LATER
    Starts talking about some deep scary shits
    THREE MINUTES AND FORTY SECONDS LATER
    And as always thanks for watching
    VIDEO ENDS*
    You start questioning yourself "why do I exist, what's life... ?"
    Your brain starts to glitch*
    You won't see him until after 1 months...
    Love his videos

    • @1234kalmar
      @1234kalmar 7 лет назад +221

      Micheal could make an existential crisis inducing overcomplicated blackhole of eldritch truths about the universe just by pondering wehter he should by bread :D
      Store clerk: "This loaf will be 1.50$"
      Micheal: "or is it?"
      *20 minutes later*
      Store Clerk: "That loaf is not 1.50$... It's... me..."

    • @obezy.
      @obezy. 7 лет назад +71

      FunTuto vsauce is my spirit animal

    • @TheAgentJesus
      @TheAgentJesus 7 лет назад +29

      10/10 would tangent again

    • @ThunderStar1998
      @ThunderStar1998 7 лет назад +12

      FunTuto best comment ever.

    • @Di-xp7uc
      @Di-xp7uc 7 лет назад +16

      ThunderStar1998
      Or is it?.....

  • @AstinelPGR
    @AstinelPGR 3 года назад +236

    Never forget the Saturn's hexagon.

    • @patrickohooliganpl
      @patrickohooliganpl 3 года назад +9

      The resonance standing wave of cyclones is present on its poles, invisible from earth. How the ancient Jewish astrologers and magicians knew about it? The Star of Solomon (hexagonal star) is The Star of Remphan (Saturn).

    • @gallium-gonzollium
      @gallium-gonzollium 3 года назад +4

      As CGP Grey said,
      “If I were to start research on a hexagon cloud with Earth-sized sides on the most look-at-me planet that also changes colour? That’s where I’d start.”

    • @mikec4196
      @mikec4196 2 года назад +1

      Don't forget all the hexagon shaped craters made of tiny hexagon shaped craters on the rocky bodies. It is an electromagnetic phenomenon

    • @Zinjadu100
      @Zinjadu100 2 года назад +4

      My man. I went to click on this hoping someone would recognize Saturn's caps....thanks man for that...

    • @kevinstotomas-cf4zu
      @kevinstotomas-cf4zu 2 года назад +1

      I was looking for this comment 😁

  • @ItsASleepySheepy
    @ItsASleepySheepy 3 года назад +400

    Show of hands, who else is here from CGP Grey's "Hexagons are the Bestagons" video?

  • @AndrewWittenburg
    @AndrewWittenburg 5 лет назад +252

    3:36 when you blink while someone is sketching you

  • @60secondsuccess39
    @60secondsuccess39 7 лет назад +798

    This was one of the most interesting videos that I've seen in a long time.

    • @chillcleetus5053
      @chillcleetus5053 5 лет назад

      @JungkooksMakupArtist ur gay EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

    • @katacutie
      @katacutie 5 лет назад +1

      @@chillcleetus5053 👀

    • @ayessarodado3955
      @ayessarodado3955 4 года назад

      @JungkooksMakupArtist as an exol i support this.. but kpop aside the topic is really interesting...

  • @oliviergelinas7365
    @oliviergelinas7365 3 года назад +42

    I love how in every video that mentions hexagons, CGP Grey ’s subscribers invade the comments section

  • @ShookSamurai
    @ShookSamurai 3 года назад +259

    You know, hexagons; are the bestagons.

    • @danzjz3923
      @danzjz3923 3 года назад

      no, pentagons are the bestagons

    • @iamnotchip1280
      @iamnotchip1280 3 года назад +4

      @@danzjz3923 HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT.

    • @danzjz3923
      @danzjz3923 3 года назад

      @@iamnotchip1280 true pentagonal tiling never repeats

    • @iamnotchip1280
      @iamnotchip1280 3 года назад

      @@danzjz3923 so do you say that hexagons are the bestagons?

    • @goldenfishingrods3462
      @goldenfishingrods3462 3 года назад

      I almost liked it but it was at 69

  • @GriffonksxEX
    @GriffonksxEX 4 года назад +970

    If math class teaches inclusive knowledges like this I’m sure students will want to learn math

    • @keagster31
      @keagster31 4 года назад +9

      Griffonksx Ex this is a science thing though, but still good point

    • @ArcticArmy
      @ArcticArmy 4 года назад +54

      @@keagster31 science and math go hand in hand.

    • @keagster31
      @keagster31 4 года назад +11

      White Shadow you do math in science, you don’t do (or at least none that I can think of) science in math.

    • @ArcticArmy
      @ArcticArmy 4 года назад +1

      @@keagster31 hmm.

    • @ArcticArmy
      @ArcticArmy 4 года назад +2

      @@keagster31 not my problem lmao

  • @Seamemaria
    @Seamemaria 7 лет назад +669

    Nature is so efficient.

    • @ooloncolluphid7904
      @ooloncolluphid7904 7 лет назад +18

      If you think about it, nature CAN'T be otherwise! (EDIT - Er, well, _eventually._ )

    • @Seamemaria
      @Seamemaria 7 лет назад +9

      Yes, evolution normally takes care of that ;)

    • @PkmnRayhak
      @PkmnRayhak 7 лет назад +9

      Nature wants to waste the least energy.

    • @Pizaerable
      @Pizaerable 7 лет назад +12

      PkmnRay
      Nature wants to waste the most energy to become stable

    • @augustburnsred3541
      @augustburnsred3541 7 лет назад +5

      oolon colluphid it's all due to entropy. Everything in nature takes the path of least resistance because it's not sentient and it can't decide to take a harder lather and the path of least resistant all ways happens first due to entropy as well that's why

  • @moistorphan
    @moistorphan 4 года назад +30

    I have a great example to add, on the molecular level! I’ve studied organic chemistry and I’ve come to know that hydrocarbons that have a hexagonal shape (cyclohexanes) are more stable than any other polygon, whether that polygon is a triangle (less sides), or a decagon (more sides)

  • @hazel_1237
    @hazel_1237 3 года назад +53

    i think cgp grey would love this for as he said: "hexagons are the bestagons"

  • @devonandrewmills
    @devonandrewmills 5 лет назад +28

    The part about “bees making round wax cells which soften into hexagonal shapes”.....blew my f-ing mind. Goddamn! That’s nuts.

  • @thatmcgamer3106
    @thatmcgamer3106 5 лет назад +913

    This is why I agree that we never invented math, but rather discovered it. Math is beautiful

    • @Satan666Official
      @Satan666Official 5 лет назад +68

      Math helps us understand our environment, like how a language is used to share thoughts, but I wouldn't say it IS a real element of nature. A type of foundation was needed, one easy to understand as a universal language, culture to culture. I think we made math into a beautiful world of its own, through our continuous use to structure life in general. But regardless of beliefs, I think very highly of the art in math. 🙂

    • @listenhereyoulittleshit3223
      @listenhereyoulittleshit3223 5 лет назад +7

      @@Satan666Official and that's why physics is better

    • @doyouknoworjustbelieve6694
      @doyouknoworjustbelieve6694 4 года назад +58

      We invented math to explain nature in writing.
      That’s why functions are also called mathematical expressions.
      If we were not around, the world will still ‘function’ under the same rules of nature.
      We did not discover the number 5. We came up with it to represent a quantity of 5
      We came up with 5xn so we don’t write 5+5.... n times
      And 5^n so we don’t write 5x5 n times.

    • @burgernthemomrailer
      @burgernthemomrailer 4 года назад +3

      ThatMCGamer nah, we invented math

    • @arthurdsjrjbr
      @arthurdsjrjbr 4 года назад +8

      Actually... we translated it.

  • @nottsoserious
    @nottsoserious 3 года назад +59

    Insect eyes? YOUR EYES TOO. There are hexagonal cells on your retina

  • @zappyfountain3339
    @zappyfountain3339 2 года назад +12

    Hexagons are truly the BESTAGONS!!!

  • @InvitingShores
    @InvitingShores 7 лет назад +176

    Not to forget Saturns hexagonal storm!

    • @besmart
      @besmart  7 лет назад +59

      I really wanted to get this into the video! But the explanations for it aren't totally clear yet (though we're getting closer)

    • @whatsinaname3200
      @whatsinaname3200 7 лет назад +1

      "Closer" is both relative and vague...

    • @billcornelius1383
      @billcornelius1383 6 лет назад

      my guess: something like the jet stream but with opposing forces, maybe a temperature cline or even including chemical properties of suspended particles (some kind of ice). I like the idea of the equal forces, if we can figure out one, it'll help define the other.

    • @aikologic
      @aikologic 6 лет назад

      Or the wind patterns in the Bermuda Triangle. When I heard about those I immediately considered a connection between those and the storm on Saturn. I've always liked hexagons, personally, just because of the way they tessellate.

    • @ShadeShockGaming
      @ShadeShockGaming 6 лет назад

      Wouldn't the most likely solution just be that the storm is so large its creating it's own separate climate inside and the edges are acting like walls to the storm? This would partly explain why they might go into a hexagonal shape.

  • @skudzer1985
    @skudzer1985 4 года назад +185

    So what's the deal with the gigantic hexagon formed at Saturn's poles? How is the wind blowing at such sharp angles?

    • @dinkledankle
      @dinkledankle 4 года назад +69

      Saturn's hexagon(which is only at the north pole) is caused by standing wave interference and vorticity. It is unrelated to this. For example, Jupiter's north pole has an octogon of 8 storms, and it's south pole a pentagon of 5 storms. Jupiter's polar vortices are constructed differently than Saturn's northern vortex, but the principles are similar.

    • @fennten8338
      @fennten8338 4 года назад +10

      what was a rollercoaster of Google searches because of one comment

    • @DanMice1
      @DanMice1 4 года назад +4

      I was gonna ask the same. Plus it's the 6th planet and Saturday is the 6th day which makes 666.

    • @LiborTinka
      @LiborTinka 3 года назад +1

      @@fennten8338 there is one YT video where they actually reproduced the hexagonal shape by keeping same hydrodynamic parameters, only scaled down

    • @slaterdomain
      @slaterdomain 3 года назад

      Filed magnetism.

  • @sriraghavt
    @sriraghavt 3 года назад +5

    As Cgpgrey said, hexagons are the bestagons

    • @cronner707
      @cronner707 3 года назад +1

      Feels like utter plagiarism, dunn it’?

  • @biglad7678
    @biglad7678 4 года назад +220

    I liked the part when they talked about hexagons

    • @zanekreger8041
      @zanekreger8041 4 года назад +5

      I like the fact that a 2 year old video is popping up in people's recommended

    • @biglad7678
      @biglad7678 4 года назад +1

      Zane Kreger didn’t know it was that old

    • @PlumEXE
      @PlumEXE 4 года назад

      Zane Kreger I like that me fact that i’m not alone

    • @LavroseRovender
      @LavroseRovender 4 года назад

      Zane Kreger ha ha yep

    • @LavroseRovender
      @LavroseRovender 4 года назад

      Fudge Cakes I see I have a minion.....
      He he.....

  • @lefe6696
    @lefe6696 7 лет назад +52

    You know the drill
    0. It's okay to be smart
    1. Real life lore
    2. Life noggin
    3. Vsauce
    4. Thoughty2
    5. Second thought
    6. kurzgesagt
    7. LEMMiNO

    • @thyalchemist
      @thyalchemist 7 лет назад +5

      You left out Sci Schow with Hank Green.

    • @Sabbathfaax
      @Sabbathfaax 7 лет назад

      Lefeblock158 _Gamer uh what?

    • @Menno_3
      @Menno_3 7 лет назад +3

      You only watch kurzgesagt if you want to be depressed for a while

    • @user-zc3nn2nx2u
      @user-zc3nn2nx2u 5 лет назад

      Aka my school periods

    • @raz0229
      @raz0229 5 лет назад +5

      _Kurzgesagt_ should be number one instead! And replace _Life Noggin_ with _Its Aumsum Time_
      And do add _Ted ed_ and I've never heard about _Vsauce_

  • @Forever_Rayne
    @Forever_Rayne 4 года назад +39

    "It's Fizzix!" needs to be on a shirt 😁

  • @RedEyeCyclops
    @RedEyeCyclops 4 года назад +75

    In conclusion, the hexagon has the smallest perimeter out of the only three 2D shapes that can place next to each of their own kind without any empty space in between each unit.

    • @yungravn
      @yungravn 3 года назад +5

      Or, Hexagons are the Bestagons

  • @MightySuki
    @MightySuki 7 лет назад +685

    Silly universe, you are so big and you are minimizing space...

    • @mattorton895
      @mattorton895 7 лет назад +50

      Marko Šurbatović - Šuki Efficiency gives infinite rewards

    • @hephaestusthebadger-legged727
      @hephaestusthebadger-legged727 7 лет назад +7

      You made my day! Thank you.

    • @OfCRhN
      @OfCRhN 6 лет назад +1

      you are so right nature is so dump can't do nothing

    • @-dash.
      @-dash. 6 лет назад +36

      Marko Šurbatović - Šuki Maybe the expanding universe is just the edge of a universe size bubble trying to stick together and form a giant multiverse hexagon🤔

    • @vaibhavpatil2611
      @vaibhavpatil2611 6 лет назад +5

      Marko Šurbatović - Šuki universe in a bubble

  • @kimia1664
    @kimia1664 5 лет назад +31

    Wow! It’s amazing how RUclips has taught me more than 12 years of school.

  • @SocratesAlexander
    @SocratesAlexander 4 года назад +5

    4:45 I think while cells on the surface of an insect's eye grow, a similar process like in the soap bubbles gets involved. Every cell wants to grow big, hence hexagons.

  • @adityanambiar6056
    @adityanambiar6056 4 года назад

    It's just amazing how hexagonal areas are useful for covering telephone coverage areas. I never got it until today.. wonderful!

  • @bernat_CustardCream
    @bernat_CustardCream 7 лет назад +90

    "...the plains of Catan form from slowly cooling lava."

  • @TheMusicalStylingsofBrentBunn
    @TheMusicalStylingsofBrentBunn 7 лет назад +237

    What if televisions used hexagonal pixels instead of squares.

    • @robert9972
      @robert9972 7 лет назад +37

      bc hex pixels are hard to develop

    • @mohamedmahmoud4045
      @mohamedmahmoud4045 6 лет назад +42

      Brent Bunn you just get more pixels in a smaller space, but it's less efficient due to how irregular the hexagons which would require more expensive hardware and developing it would be even harder, basically the trip is not worth it for the destination

    • @mariovelez5669
      @mariovelez5669 6 лет назад +46

      Much easier to program squares on an x-y plane and not get complicated

    • @zeroangelmk1
      @zeroangelmk1 6 лет назад +49

      Then they would be called hexels

    • @mduckernz
      @mduckernz 6 лет назад +9

      It would be quite nice with high resolutions, as you'd get some natural anti-aliasing

  • @yashashviraj4251
    @yashashviraj4251 3 года назад +4

    Hexagons are the bestagons 😌

  • @swolby9230
    @swolby9230 4 года назад +1

    The applications of geometry to biology, physics and chemsitry are fascinating. But, those transitions are pretty excellent as well.

  • @ArPremithsatish
    @ArPremithsatish 7 лет назад +59

    Yet again... Another fantastic video... Good going Joe...
    I'm going to do the bubbles experiment to see the results for myself...

    • @besmart
      @besmart  7 лет назад +44

      Awesome! Protip: add a tiny bit of glycerin to the soap mixture and the bubbles will last longer

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 7 лет назад +2

      It's Okay To Be Smart You are awesome.

  • @Corvaire
    @Corvaire 7 лет назад +95

    Does that mean that the storm upon Saturn is the most efficient storm in our galaxy? ;O)-

  • @Lumberjack_king
    @Lumberjack_king 3 года назад +4

    Hexagons are the bestagons

  • @theunboxingexperience3480
    @theunboxingexperience3480 4 года назад +3

    Lovely content! Thank you so much. Also, props to the animators and editors!

  • @TheScienceBiome
    @TheScienceBiome 7 лет назад +153

    Well animated and to the point.
    Great video!

  • @leocelente
    @leocelente 7 лет назад +6

    - why nature loves hexagons?
    - bubbles
    *plays vsauce music*

  • @anganasantra7360
    @anganasantra7360 2 года назад

    One of the best narrated curiosity- satisfying channels ! love the videos 🙌🏻

  • @BenTvHowman
    @BenTvHowman 4 года назад

    It always comes down to the path of least resistance.
    Thank you from Australia

  • @Niom_Music
    @Niom_Music 5 лет назад +6

    It’s also the most high tech pattern and makes everything looks 100x more advanced by default.

  • @mynamejeff3498
    @mynamejeff3498 7 лет назад +455

    i got like 10billion toy channels reccomended to me

    • @HamzahHusain_the_sexy_beast
      @HamzahHusain_the_sexy_beast 7 лет назад +7

      ramen noodle me too lol

    • @robinsparrow1618
      @robinsparrow1618 7 лет назад +17

      I got a bunch of children's videos for some reason?

    • @HDVenomGamer
      @HDVenomGamer 7 лет назад +7

      same, blocked them all

    • @besmart
      @besmart  7 лет назад +81

      Very weird that so many people are getting these. Is it because I mentioned bubbles?! Come on, RUclips

    • @BaronVonQuiply
      @BaronVonQuiply 7 лет назад +29

      Here I thought I was the only person RUclips suddenly thought was a 6 year old.
      OK, taking a second look, 6 is way too old.

  • @saakshisaini4920
    @saakshisaini4920 3 года назад

    Why din I find this channel during my school days!! This channel is awsome.. keep growing and thanks for sharing!!

  • @holom2076
    @holom2076 4 года назад +6

    5:45
    "some people say Nature follows the rules of Mathematics"
    Me in Online Distance Learning: *Reality can be whatever I want*

  • @Dmiudo
    @Dmiudo 5 лет назад +32

    I see the workmanship of a Creator the more and more I study nature and science. Rules and patterns that show intelligent design. Be blessed.

    • @falconhawk6380
      @falconhawk6380 5 лет назад

      Subhan ALLAH

    • @Dmiudo
      @Dmiudo 4 года назад

      @Please Complete All Fields
      Perhaps, I see what you are saying. But how does nature know to use those patterns? If a flower follows a certain pattern or rule how does it tell the tree to follow the same pattern or rule?

    • @Dmiudo
      @Dmiudo 4 года назад

      @Please Complete All Fields
      Okay, I'll follow along with that but where did those constraints come from? Were they always there or just evolved to exist?

    • @Dmiudo
      @Dmiudo 4 года назад

      @Please Complete All Fields
      I agree with you that the laws are ever present. We can observe and analyze and then make assumptions as to why things work as we see them to work. But that does not mean we have discovered the rule why it works like that.
      For instance, scientists just recently were able to capture a picture of quantum entanglement. This is revolutionary because it gives more evidence for the proposed theories of quantum mechanics. That doesn't mean we have found some rule for it, but simply that we have observed something happening. Or take for instance the micro evolutionary process of the human immune system. We know it evolves and adapts but we can't pinpoint to the exact process or mechanices behind that. Or gravity for example. We say these are the observations and this is what happens but scientists still haven't 100% proved what exactly is going on. You would think finding those rules would be easy since these things are always right in front of us and even the simplest person can observe it.
      Now taking the carburetor example you have given. Say that broken carburetor was somehow transported like 1000 years into the past. The people would observe it and try to make assumptions as to why or how it works or can work but only the person who invented it can truely say what is going on inside the carburetor.
      All I am trying to say is that we as humans make observations but even then those can be misleading and not concrete because our view of the things going on isn't always complete. These examples show that many times there is more going on then we can see and I am proposing that these examples show that Somebody is behind all of it. Just like an engineer is the one who created the carburetor, so God created the systems and processes which we see. To say these processes and systems just happen to have appeared takes even more faith then how much faith it takes to say God is behind it all. I don't come up to somebody driving a car and say hey that thing created itself. That's absurd. The creation around us points to a Creator.
      Romans 1:20
      Be blessed brother.

    • @raimohoft1236
      @raimohoft1236 4 года назад

      @Please Complete All Fields That's it in a nutshell... thanks, so I don't have to put in all those letters!
      😅😅😅😈😈😈😋😋😋

  • @sciencenerd7639
    @sciencenerd7639 Год назад +5

    Wow, even though I already knew some of this from the cgp grey video, I'm glad that I watched this one too because it helped me to understand even more. I really liked the example of the rocks (Giants Causeway)

    • @bevmc5061
      @bevmc5061 Год назад

      Have you looked into sacred geometry, Fibonacci etc. fascinating stuff.

  • @guyjperson
    @guyjperson 4 года назад

    This content is always good...But this was really fascinating and answers a lot of world questions I've had. Awesome.

  • @shaswathpatil3439
    @shaswathpatil3439 3 года назад

    Amazing video! Nature loves being efficient, it uses struture as one of the means to achieve it.

  • @kgangadhar5389
    @kgangadhar5389 5 лет назад +24

    To be fair mathematics is derived by observing nature, its kinda odd to ask is nature a mathematician.

  • @paraschivliubovi7212
    @paraschivliubovi7212 4 года назад +22

    Short answer: *ITS THE LAW*

    • @enniomojica7812
      @enniomojica7812 3 года назад

      Thats what puzzles me. Why is it the LAW! She used language like: nature "SEEKS" the most efficient shape. But nature isn't sentient so nature doesn't seek anything. Please explain without such language.

    • @A101stNCO
      @A101stNCO 3 года назад

      It was designed, created.....

    • @enniomojica7812
      @enniomojica7812 3 года назад

      @@A101stNCO designed? Created? You mean like God?

  • @vuquocmanh11t14
    @vuquocmanh11t14 2 года назад

    Man! Credit to the edit, they did a good jobs. I keep watching this masterpiece for hours.

  • @sarthaksharma9129
    @sarthaksharma9129 Год назад

    This video activates the hexagon receptors in my brain to a very exiting degree

  • @SeanLumly
    @SeanLumly 7 лет назад +6

    Your "Settlers of Catan" reference was not lost on me... :)

  • @eertikrux666
    @eertikrux666 4 года назад +6

    At 3:15
    Me: “OH MY GOD this is so fascinating”
    At 3:36
    Me: “Hey there Mr Joseph”

  • @girlwithuke9853
    @girlwithuke9853 2 года назад +2

    Me realising this is exactly what my teacher was trying to explain in chemistry!!!! (Packing efficiency of Crystalline solids)

  • @daribee295
    @daribee295 3 года назад

    i love that you mentioned Catan.

  • @expertoflizardcorrugation3967
    @expertoflizardcorrugation3967 4 года назад +17

    The people who say nature seeks out the lowest energy are right XD.
    Mathematics are us explaining what we see in nature, so you could say that nature was the first mathematician

  • @RoccosVideos
    @RoccosVideos 7 лет назад +10

    Very cool, I think this makes me a nerd.

  • @sarahhavillamelooliveira5825
    @sarahhavillamelooliveira5825 4 года назад

    Simple rules, elegant solutions.
    Sounds like go to me.

  • @purelivingfamily
    @purelivingfamily 4 года назад

    This was a really cool video. It was interesting and I learned a lot. Thank you for sharing.

  • @grahamhaw2281
    @grahamhaw2281 5 лет назад +150

    LSD told me this years ago! 😅 what a beautiful world..

    • @jonmacdonald5345
      @jonmacdonald5345 4 года назад +10

      Graham Haw Remain Calm 🚨 Police are on the way
      🚓🚓🚓🚓🚓🚔🏢🏢

    • @plasmaxander912
      @plasmaxander912 4 года назад +2

      WOAAAH MAN EVERYTHING'S HEXAGONS
      FAR OUT MAAAAN

    • @justinmontagne6543
      @justinmontagne6543 4 года назад

      No it didn't you demon

    • @rebeccaphillips2501
      @rebeccaphillips2501 4 года назад

      OH MY GOD same! Came looking through the comments to see if anyone had the same experience. Every time it's hexagons in nature, beautiful symmetry

  • @staratlas5826
    @staratlas5826 6 лет назад +3

    Great video! Can you please explain the Hexagon vortex storm on Saturn's pole atmosphere? I'm really fascinated by it. Thanks!

  • @arcanevoid659
    @arcanevoid659 3 года назад

    Glad I'm getting these in suggestions:)

  • @tailsfan465
    @tailsfan465 3 года назад

    Chocolate milk.... When i blew into my straw as a child i remember the bubbles looking hexagon-y, I've always wondered why! This is cool!

  • @keomeow1936
    @keomeow1936 4 года назад +47

    Me: oh cool looks interesting lets watch
    My trypophobic ass 10s into video: 😰

    • @so9175
      @so9175 4 года назад +1

      Same time omg

    • @kingdmind
      @kingdmind 4 года назад +4

      I love Angelique
      Definitely not

    • @Jexy00
      @Jexy00 4 года назад +5

      @I love Angelique on 1 in 800 million i think you misread somrthing because its wayyyyy more common than what you think
      Probably a 1/80 or 1/800

    • @Jexy00
      @Jexy00 4 года назад

      @@sailor5853i guess its just weird to look at

  • @sebyt.2324
    @sebyt.2324 2 года назад +3

    Let’s all say it
    “Hexagons are the Bestagons.”

  • @Caitness1
    @Caitness1 4 года назад

    Thanks I love this I am teaching patterns in nature to preschooler starting with honey bees. Have you seen the spiral shaped hives of Australian Sugar Bag Bees?

  • @nicholasivanderstoop4191
    @nicholasivanderstoop4191 3 года назад

    Love it . Thank you . Topics well chosen

  • @suryakiranr4444
    @suryakiranr4444 7 лет назад +698

    "Nature follows the rules of mathematics"
    Nope.. mathematics follows the rules of nature

    • @mattorton895
      @mattorton895 7 лет назад +52

      Surya Kiran Yes, and nature can change the rules just to laugh as mathematicians scramble to keep up.

    • @connorp3030
      @connorp3030 7 лет назад +71

      Mathemeticians: *Comes up with axioms that are obviously true in our reality, develops math specifically to explain patterns in nature and be useful*
      Mathemeticians: "Oh my god, math predicts nature so well and is so useful, it's obviously fundamental to the universe."

    • @arielfuturspeed
      @arielfuturspeed 6 лет назад +7

      Your right since math didnt exist thousands of years ago

    • @diegoacosta8550
      @diegoacosta8550 6 лет назад +7

      I'd say it's fundamental to at least understanding the universe.

    • @nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489
      @nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489 6 лет назад +19

      "nature can change the rules just to laugh" ... When has this EVER happened? when has the laws of physics not just been weird, but was one way one day, then just, BOOP! different? idiot.

  • @hrnekbezucha
    @hrnekbezucha 6 лет назад +54

    Super Hexagon - begin!

  • @OCTAGON8AO
    @OCTAGON8AO 3 месяца назад

    Amazing nature.

  • @mohammadhoseinmoein8251
    @mohammadhoseinmoein8251 3 года назад

    I love the fact that there are no ads in these videos

  • @_smqrtboik_9185
    @_smqrtboik_9185 2 года назад +3

    Hexagons are and will be the Bestagons

  • @gutenman7112
    @gutenman7112 4 года назад +8

    Energy tend to be at their lowest state . So high stability= less energy use . Hence the hexagon ..

    • @arthurthekyogre9155
      @arthurthekyogre9155 4 года назад

      It's like Earth if it was flat, it doesn't matter what shape it is, it will change until it becomes stable

  • @shakeesangwenya4927
    @shakeesangwenya4927 Год назад

    Finally a question that has lingered in my mind has been answered. Surface tension has been the culprit behind honeycombs shapes!!!

  • @oleksiyalkhazov9201
    @oleksiyalkhazov9201 4 года назад

    Idk why, but it's like one of the greatest things in the world, yet brought in such a cool way :D

  • @ashtondurham5075
    @ashtondurham5075 5 лет назад +17

    How could you fail to mention the hexagon on Saturn?! Another fascinating detail of nature.

    • @kubrak837
      @kubrak837 4 года назад

      Kubra k
      2 minutes ago (edited)
      ruclips.net/video/JLTxyfYIF-4/видео.html
      This pattern is described very well described in the verses of Holy Quran 1400 years ago, The book was revealed from the creator of this world and the universe who is none other than ALLAH. ALLAH also mentions that " SURELY IN THIS IS A SIGN FOR THE PEOPLE WHO REFLECT" 16:69
      Indeed 'ALLAH IS THE BEST OF ALL PLANNERS"
      Allahu Akbar!!

    • @arthurthekyogre9155
      @arthurthekyogre9155 4 года назад

      It's because it's talking about physics here on Earth, and how nature naturally creates hexagons to stabalize things, Saturn's hexagon is just an amazing coincidence

    • @patrickohooliganpl
      @patrickohooliganpl 3 года назад

      @@kubrak837 Known by the Jewish magicians and astrologers 3000 years ago. The Star of Remphan.

  • @venb
    @venb 4 года назад +131

    The physics thing is why water in earth doesn't leave earth.
    *UNDERSTAND KEVIN? LEAVE FLAT EARTH NOW*

    • @jaxvipre8606
      @jaxvipre8606 4 года назад +2

      What did Kevin do to u?

    • @0x2A_
      @0x2A_ 4 года назад +4

      @@malanao bendy oceans are ridiculous!! Earth is flat.

    • @0x2A_
      @0x2A_ 4 года назад

      @@malanao No, water is in a equilibrium between solid and liquid!

    • @evolutionhasevidenceopinio5234
      @evolutionhasevidenceopinio5234 4 года назад +1

      Water ON earth
      It not in the earth.

    • @evolutionhasevidenceopinio5234
      @evolutionhasevidenceopinio5234 4 года назад

      @@malanao not you but hey. The only one pulling you is you.

  • @lordfeish1927
    @lordfeish1927 3 года назад

    Another way to put it is that the densest packing of circles is each one surrounded by 6 others and that naturally makes a hex grid

  • @0707Vivek
    @0707Vivek 4 года назад

    very informative video. thanks

  • @xanderbriggs2794
    @xanderbriggs2794 3 года назад +3

    So one might say that hexagon are the bestagons.

  • @patrickhodson8715
    @patrickhodson8715 5 лет назад +3

    “...our favorite mathematician, Kelsey...”
    Umm excuse you, it’s the brilliant lady from all the Mandelbrot videos Numberphile has put out.

  • @Aaron-pw6cx
    @Aaron-pw6cx 2 года назад

    Fantastic. Do one on snow and ice nucleus.

  • @ashhplayz9489
    @ashhplayz9489 4 года назад

    A video about hexagons is giving me a add of hexagon lights

  • @cgoose500
    @cgoose500 5 лет назад +11

    Hexagons are just circles with the spaces between them filled in

    • @arthurthekyogre9155
      @arthurthekyogre9155 4 года назад

      That's just an unrecognizable shape with infinite size

    • @cgoose500
      @cgoose500 4 года назад

      @@arthurthekyogre9155 Nah a hexagon only has 6

    • @arthurthekyogre9155
      @arthurthekyogre9155 4 года назад

      @@cgoose500 if there was an infinite group of circles grouped together, if you filled the spcae between them it would just look like a red screen, that can be divided in any way that's equal, your explanation on what hexagons are is completely bland

    • @cgoose500
      @cgoose500 4 года назад

      You take some circles
      You put the circles together
      You expand the circles equally until there's no empty space left between them
      They have become hexagons
      Why did you bring the concept of infinity and the color red into this? We're talking about bees here
      We're as in "we were" because you replied to a year old comment.
      Get a loada this dood
      iamverysmart amiright fellas

    • @arthurthekyogre9155
      @arthurthekyogre9155 4 года назад

      @@cgoose500 ...yeah you're right i'm a dumb*ss

  • @agnibho
    @agnibho 7 лет назад +10

    My brain shuts down every time the infinite series lady appears on the screen. She is too gorgeous.

  • @Purnendu1984
    @Purnendu1984 2 года назад

    Amazing explanation

  • @vampire_catgirl
    @vampire_catgirl 3 года назад

    I do like to imagine Bee Mathematicians calculating the perfect architecture for their combs

  • @VocalMabiMaple
    @VocalMabiMaple 7 лет назад +5

    Another hexagonal mystery is Saturn's Hexagon.

  • @GenJotsu
    @GenJotsu 7 лет назад +18

    More space filled, less material used. Thnx

  • @rammsteinkorduner3114
    @rammsteinkorduner3114 2 года назад

    I always wondered this, i just did not know the words for the question

  • @sudochmodx3752
    @sudochmodx3752 3 года назад +1

    OChemists: aaaaaaaaaaaaa someone joined my cult of hexagons