Why is every snowflake “unique”? There are so many snowflakes at all times, and however many ‘illions in the past, shouldn’t it have used every combination by now?
In: Chemistry
It’s kind of a cheat in a way.
Essentially every everything is ‘unique’ in some way.
But no, the structures of them are so complicated with so much potential for variation that you end up with so many combinations that two would never be the same.
It’s kind of like how Chess looks fairly limited but there’s most possible chess games than atoms in the universe. It just becomes exponentially complicated so fast.
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