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Originally Posted by jem
Well they possibly are, the structure of the water molecule greatly favours ice crystals forming a hexagonal lattice structure (although twelve-sided snowflakes have sometimes been observed). The six 'arms' of this structure grow independently and chaotically and indeed only a fraction of snowflakes are actually symmetrical. Because this growth is completely random then it is not likely that two snowflakes would grow in identical manners. - but it is certainly not a rule that all snowflakes have to be dissimilar.
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Well they say if you have an infinite pool of monkeys hitting a typewriter randomly for an infinite duration you will sooner or later get the complete works of Shakespeare out of one of them. So given an infinite multiverse, any possible shape and configuration of snowflake would theoretically occur an infinite number of times.
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Going back to the 'largest snowflake' postings from earlier in this thread, there is no evidence that this 15 inch snowflake ever existed - it was just a claim that someone reported seeing one of that size.
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Very true. And in fact, they never even claimed to see one of "that size" (15 inches), just something akin to the size of a pan I believe was the actual description.