Why do bees build hexagonal honeycombs? - Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: Episode 1 - BBC One
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Programme website: bbc.in/29kGs3z Honeybees around the world build perfectly hexagonal honeycombs, but why? Professor Brian Cox reveals the hidden mathematical rule behind one of nature's most perfect shapes
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You can see his excitement. He is talking about this with awe. Love it.
not sure how he can go the whole speech without mention phi or the divine proportions
probably second thought video on this channel
I can't find a video of bees making a honey comb from scratch.
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Read also Quran bee’s chapter
Maybe they are aliens
Sounds islamistic
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2 years later, I've been searching for a while now and I cant find any either
I thought he was going to explain it
it might be in the actual full episode.
arrghgarry q
He can't explain what he doesn't know.
ClickBEEt (I will let.myself out)
They said that it’s not agreed upon
It is the frequency resonance from the bees buzzing wings that shapes the honeycomb hexagonaly. Cymatrics 😀
the honeycomb conjecture is a good band name
they could use mathematical equations to create music.
"Free Beer" is a good band name. :-)
BEEtles is better. Actually, the Beatles were almost called the Beetles
1:40... "bee-haviour"? --- I'm sorry, I had to do it... xD
You just have to love Brian Cox
Bees are amazing. I love bees.
Bees
Love God, He is even more amazing!
@@BillMorganChannel sorry busta but not even god comes close to the Bee
@@seemeslegit3765 I did a creation lesson on bees. Hundreds of bees, with no training, begin crawling all over each other, in the pitch dark, and build these beautiful honeycombs.
Busta loves science and God and bees...Semens do you love God too?
Why does he have such a satisfying face to look at??
Because hexagons are the bestagons!
Btw I have seen the others comments on other videos but I thought of it before I read the comments, so it's not copying.
I suppose you could use the honeycomb conjecture to help describe why the center of a planet core could be hexagonal. If the core was very magnetic, it could create a hexagonal imprint on the planets surface, like on Saturn north pole?
I love that he pronounce it "hexigans".
I wonder if he calls people from Mexico "mexigons"
😂😂
SAVE BEES!!! They are geniuses!
💜💜talking facts😂
They are not. Its called instincts. They have it naturaly without thinking about it. Therefore, still not cleverer than us. Sometimes i feel like i am the only human on the whole planet, that knows exactly that we as a species ARE infact very very clever. Because we think. Animals often dont think. They have it in their bodies already. So sick of those "humans are so dumb" arguments....
The bees obviously use a ruler every time, for every side. One of the bees studied architecture and designed the specific hive. He has to wear a hat during construction.
Lol!
true
I remember seeing a video of bees actually making the hexagons themselves. I could be wrong but I remember it comes from their mouth, or they use their mouths somehow.
Terrence Howard knows it's the vibration from their wings that made the shape.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C Clarke. 🐝 ‘s are among Natures most amazing drones.
I suspect that these little insects are highly intelligent, building hexagonal shapes! I'm amazed! 🤠
Things can only get better 💓
Now that you figured out bees honeycombs. How sturdy are ant tunnels as ants generally live underground?
Thank you for interesting video of internal life of the hive. Best wishes to the entomologists and beekeepers and bumble-bees and insect lovers!
There is something to be said about the peaceful droning of the bees wings along with the shape hexagon of the honeycomb and the fact that honeycomb never goes bad. Unity:)
He's right. I had a bee do my taxes last year and I got the biggest return I've ever had.
that's a great comment
How come he says people don’t know if bees make the wax into circles first or straight to hexagons? Can people not film bees doing this?
Love this guy and this segment was really cool! Would love to know more! Hope they figure out soon how the bees make those shapes. Would it not be(e) possible to put up a camera and watch them in action?
Great idea!
That's great information, however, it still doesn't answer the question of "HOW they know to do it and or HOW they accomplish the shape.
Hi BBC, I have just contributed a Translation into Vietnamese so many of our people can understand this interesting and helpful video. Can you approve the Translation ASAP, thanks
when you realize bees are better at maths then you
I think bees 🐝 are smart af
She must've bit right into a hexagonal like it was an apple.
This dude would great to drop an heroic dose of shrooms with.
I assumed it had to do with the pulling forces* where as triangles may be more well suited to downward pressure (without volume contributing in any way.)
Bees are naturally made to provide life
What about Toblerone? They use triangular almonds from triangular trees and triangular honey from triangular bees.
I think @CGPGrey agrees that hexagons truly are the best-agons!
the Great One shows us his wondrous power by subtle means . . .
I saw a video about the sound they produce that creates a frequency that shapes the hexagons
That way Pentagon seems more fundamental as it involves golden triangle and the ratios of lengths based on phi.
0:21 Did he say 'Abbey' in the subtitle? Or 'a bee'. It wasn't abyss, surely? Interesting building work inspired from the familial nature!
Hexagons are the bestagons
Why not a square , a rectangle , a triangle ? They dont leave spaces in them either 🤔
Good question...
I guess because u can build any form with it without losing the pattern.unlike square or triangle, at somepoint it will be irregular
A hexagon holds the most volume, contains the most volume or honey using the LEAST amount of walls, a triangle using a meter of walls on it's 3 sides will hold slightly less honey than a hexagon using a meter of walls on it's 6 sides etc
Bees’ are some very intelligent creatures
There is a surprising lack of content of bees building honeycombs. This seems to be an area we've observed very little of.
Yep..I,ve wondered if its the resonic sound frequency vibration of the bees wings forming the hexagon shapes..like geometric patterns forming on a sound board with sand on..just a thought!!
I like hexagons
This is one of the prove of the intelligence designed in nature.
Hexagons in nature might go back even further...... basalt colums are usually hexagonal.
I love bees🐝❤️
Conclusion: bee mathematicians are smarter than human mathematicians
Wow so much info
Fantastic
thxs
Intelligent design.
Professor Brian Cox ...
Ultimately ...has to be one of our greatest inovators of our modern times ...i SALUTE THEE
( excuse spelling I am Dyslexic)......Namasste
good video
👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌74% efficiency in hexagonal close packing.
Bee-haviour great pun there
the problem is bees they do not use hexagonal honeycomb they use heptagonal prism 6 sides down attached one point up because this the only way to built spheric shape as teams working simultunialy
Music is the universal human language. Mathematics is the language of the universe.
music is what?
Mathematics is the shadow of Sacred Geometry...
If a tree bears fruit, you telling me it is an 'apple' changes nothing.
The question that I want an answer to is why do ALL bees make hexagonal honeycombs. Do they telepathicaly communicate, are they all controlled by an overmind, like the zerg, or what?
The same way all smartphones know to connect to the internet. They're all programmed the same way.
He has an accent, therefore he must be legit
What am I missing? No one knows if honeybees intentionally make hexagons or they make circles that become hexagons? Can't we just watch them?
The way bee evolved the ability to build honeycombs is amazing.
Ha ha ha! 🤣.
"evolved" to build such perfect honeycombs, sure jan
@@MatthewOlls sure bob
do u have brain .
@@bestryfulhd2102 i think , maybe I'm the first person that can function without one
Do you have one ?
the honey bee shows in the wild that is uses force on the comb until it can not be forced and moves on. By having a force applied in just 3 directions this is achieved with out thinking about space but deal with wax generated from glands and chewing it and placing it. There is no debate it is just a piece of wax placed sometimes its a line or a dot but it will turn into a hexagon no mater how it starts. It is litterally a force of a honey bee pressing in 3 directions and that is all. Just like your dark matter it is litterally everything that does not emit light like the core of the earth and dust.
Honestly anyone can draw one correctly it could just go on and on and on and on and on🤪 and on of course with a ruler is much easier 📐📏 those are some creative beeusy little ladies🖤🐝
I am most interested in the formation of the first hexagon of a honeycomb…is it a specific bee? Does the vibration thereafter resonate in a way other bees just need to plug away?
1:36 has this never been recorded or witnessed...?
Man this fellow just leave without any explanation
It doesn't take papers of math to conclude that the hexagonal formation is the most effecient structure. Now, how does the bee construct the cells in perfect uniformity? That's what I want to know.
Agree. Would it not have been easier to construct the shapes in the same amount of space and then see which holds the most water or honey? Further it might be that bees find it easier to make a hexagon shape than any other shape, and that holding maximum quantity honey is not the reason for the hexagon shape.
@@DrMontague , and digger even deeper, those hexagons allow for a certain frequency in the hive. This may be part of their communicating aparatus. Yes, they use pheromones, but I believe that there is so much more.
@@atticuskilby515mayb it's the vibration from the buzzing of the bees that forms the hexagon shape.
*And you know my name is Simon, and I like to do droorings.*
Why couldn't GCSE Maths be as brilliant as this?
Because the government-run education system sucks
School is meant to brainwash not educate.
LOL
You look like the baby’s dad in the game Death Stranding
theme music of this clip??any idea
I didn’t know Steven Tyler did nature videos
We can now conclude that bees are intellectuals. 😌
How are bees so smart???? 😊
hexagons are the bestagons
Argh haha, love/hate...love Brian but am tripophobic!! Can't wait for the new series :)
I watching now cause I have either wasps or yellow jackets building some outside my apartment in front of my door.
SAVE THE BEES
Bees solved this mathematical problems ages ago..
How the hell are scientists teaching evolution if they can't even show a honeycomb being built 💀💀💀💀
Not a single 🐝 was seen in this video...
Cuz they are born in that they were like tadpole like frog and many days they will hatch and build theire home cause they born there so they make it home even its hexagon
Save the bees
🐝 are the best
Yup
1:50 Subtitles: Texicans
BBC just invented the word for a person born from a Texan and a Mexican.
Don't worry, bee-happy.
Darwin writes about bees and their hexagon in his, "On the Origin of Species." Right before his discussion about bees, Darwin writes about ants. Darwin's musings on ants are some of the funniest stuff I've ever read. Darwin knew that if he used certain words when describing ants, he'd crack-up his readers. Strange to find laughs inside Darwin, but these laughs are there.
Unbeelievable
Cool
Surely there are some simple lab experiments with bees or phds getting the bees to build honey combs inside different structures and see if they produce hexagonal ones?
classless mass everything requires intelligence.
All frustrated mathematicians and physicists who didn’t become Einsteins reincarnated into these species.
I wonderinb the same but the answer seems inconclusive enough 😊
Why is the consideration of wax collapsing to a hexagon a thing. Wax when for example a wax candle collapses doesn’t fall evenly, why is it supposedly that it will collapse to a hexagon? Curious
It's because the bees cooperate with each other and know it's the only way to survive. We are all mostly independent. We don't work together anymore. :/
Because hexagons are the bestagons!
They are the bestagons
You know them bees,they’re just cut like that.
why aren't squares efficient ?
they would need less stuff
Where do bees graduate from?