Have a look at this hexed tower-- a natural stone monument made of hexagonal columns, strangely uniform in structure, standing in defiance of understood science and natural history. 

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In the Western part of the USA stands this curious rock formation called Devil's Tower, a monument with a mystery. Devil's Tower shows mathematical design, with interlocking columns smartly done, much like the way that bees design their combs, with thrift and purpose. The curious stone structure speaks of intelligence-- it's math firmly putting the geometry into it's geology, while utterly eluding explanation as to it's means of formation. 

Officially, the stone was formed during some ancient volcanic activity, but the idea of lava naturally flowing and solidifying into perfectly aligned hexagonal columns may be difficult to imagine.

Hexagons in Nature

The six-sided design of a hexagon shows up in nature in places like honeycombs and snowflakes, and is easily accepted as apart of nature, but when it shows up in such large scale, the mathematical shape lacks a good explanation. How, and why would stone form into such precise shapes?

Giant's Causeway, Ireland

In the image above, a strange formation in Ireland called the Giant's Causeway bears the same mark as Devil's Tower, and again the hexagonal columns are visible, and again the vulcanism that hoped to explain this formation is failing with it's 'lava' story.

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A Hex on Science?

Is it a coincidence that the name Devil's Tower goes on a structure with six-sided columns? Have we been spellbound into presuming that lava could solidify into hexagrams? How could lava have made those shapes? 

Giant Tree Stump

There are the compelling ideas of ancient forests which once covered the Earth, and that perhaps Devil's Tower is exactly what it looks like; a big tree stump. Whether petrified or maybe a silicone-based life form, the giant tree hypothesis makes more sense than the idea of flowing molten lava behaving anything like this.

Thinking Big

There's evidence all over the world that nature does things big, and it does things small, and often there is correspondence in these things. Mathematics can be found in the stems and leaves of plants, and this geometry shows up significantly in the mineral Kingdom. These geometries can be echoed in size and scale, but could trees really have grown to such colossal scales? 

There's plenty of questions, and with a little thought, and daring, we can imagine the answers as well as anyone, since Science never settled on an answer for these gigantic stone hexagonal forms. They seem to defy nature, while they actually define nature with it's constant use of platonic shapes and mathematical form, filled with order and logic, while also filled with fascinating mystery.

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images thanks to Library of Congress, Pixabay, and Google Earth

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