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Cymatics on Saturn.

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I've been looking into spurious claims of the involvement of so-called "Cymatics" in historical structures and natural features, and came across this Youtube video about Cymatic patterns observed on Saturn.

For those new to the term, Cymatics is a pseudoscience invented by Hans Jenny based upon earlier (legitimate) discoveries by Ernst Chladni, and involves visual representation of vibrations - it has been applied to Ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs, the Chartres labyrinth, Rosslyn Chapel, and that old favourite, crop circles!

I don't believe for a moment that these images are anything more than beautiful coincidences; just another (rather abstract) form of pareidolia. Is it possible to address any of the points made in it? What scientific explanations are there for geometric shapes in Saturn's fluid (?) surface?
 
Yes, it's a hexagon. Maybe the mechanism that forms it is similar to what happens in the buckets of water in that Danish experiment. The mechanism itself is not explained in the article: it seems that it has not been much studied. All that is said is: "Harry Swinney, a specialist in pattern-forming fluid flows at the University of Texas at Austin, says the new observation is roughly in line with what one might expect. At high enough rotation speeds, he says, a fluid will always experience some flow instability that creates a symmetrical structure."

All very interesting. But look at the video "Cymatics on Saturn". Does that hexagon really look like the design on the stone in Rosslyn Chapel?.
 
Insofar as the carvings in Rosslyn chapel look like Chladni (cymatic) patterns. Which is to say, not at all :)
 
What?

What? Just goes to show how far reaching "woo woo" folks will go....I don't see anything in the video that can not be explained.

Nothing "alien" here folks...just move along, nothing to see.....
 
I wonder if they're standing waves, or shock waves, or something along those lines. Absent the woo, it's an interesting subject. There are still so many things we need to understand about complexity.
 
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