Mystery at Devil's Tower and the Giant's Causeway- Hexagonal Columns of Basalt
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.
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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Well, I think the answer is possibly that the lava formed into crystals based on the speed and conditions of its cooling. Natural crystals are extremely mathematical and stuff. But it is certainly curious that its called the Devil's Tower and also that the crystals are all six sided!
The official story of the name was that it was misinterpreted or mistranslated, something like 'bad god's tower', so the name came to be. I would suggest that it was to keep curious christians scared away from the unique structure, so they won't ask questions!
I did consider the giant quartz formations that were found underground, maybe in Mexico, the math happening a few 'octaves' up from the usual quartz rock that we see, so that is something worth noting.
That IS interesting...
This was interesting, great work, clear writing :) Thanks for sharing it!
Hey I appreciate that, I had more questions than answers to this anomaly, so it was shorter than I'd planned!
I want to see the logger who cut down that tree! 0.0
And what a chainsaw, or hatchet, it must have taken to do it, too.
This really appeals to the child in me that persistently believes in fairy tale creatures such as giants :) I'm fascinated by things like this. The pyramids and stonehenge are sources of endless speculation for me :)
Me too! I saw a photo the other day, a close-up of Devil's Tower, and I'd never known it had such precise symmetry, I've been thinking about it for days-- this post barely covered it, or left more questions, like I tend to do :)
There's nothing wrong with leaving more questions, some things just don't seem to have answers based on the information out there. I like things that make me wonder :)
I try to inspire wonder here, all of this is me, wondering out loud. Sometimes I have outrageous conclusions, but I try to make them sound reasonable and sane. It's a constant struggle of mine ;)
Go back to chat asap:)
The comment hidden on the bottom of your post belongs to that person who rambled on my page, looks like they fell off the wagon, lol.
I wondered where I'd seen that name before. Not encouraging as a first vote on this hexed post...
I read this, I enjoyed this... so I voted. I'm not sure if my eyes were playing tricks on me... but it looked like my vote made the value drop. I'm confused right now. I don't know what to think. I hope I didn't break something.
It may have dropped, a glitch today caused the post's value to drop from nearly $5 down to it's current change, and the value is still falling-- you just saved it from dropping even more, and I appreciate it!
I was scrolling through the feed when I saw it. I swear I saw dollars and not cents, but sometimes that information is outdated. I didn't see it drop once I voted, I just noticed a huge discrepancy between what I saw initially and the result once inside and voting. Am I even making sense? I don't think I've seen a post drop that much... but I'm not even sure what I saw. If I saved it... good! If it was already around $.60 before I voted, then it wasn't me.
You are making sense-- I saw a post about this months ago and someone explained in the comments, but basically the numbers change by the second sometimes, and a vote can appear to drop the number, or it can appear to raise it. I always like it when I read an article and then vote, only to see that it's been curated while I was reading, and my click raises it by DOLLARS-- what a feeling!
I've noticed, and quite often, even with updated information, if I vote late, I'll usually raise the value by a nickel and sometimes a dime. I probably don't get shit for curation rewards, but that's why I write my own stuff.
I wonder how these payouts will look when they sit for an entire week. One day $20, the next $5? That could break a lot of hearts....
Crap I didn't think of that-- as it is, it locks the payout after 24 hrs, but a week is an eternity in crypto world, no idea how that's going to work out. Don't look back!
I just upvoted you! But, Why Does One Person Get To Decide for us all? Know the truth.
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Its weird that your value on this post dropped! I upvoted it...
Thanks for the vote. Yeah I hear there was a glitch, dunno if it's fixed, but a nice potent voter came by and up-voted the post since the glitch!
Yeah...it looks like its going up now...
Glad to be of service. :)
There are some other places in the world that have this same crystal tower structure. I'm not sure where tho. I think I've seen photos of one place, which is a beach or ocean front. That might explain some of the crystal formation. Water can cause molten rock to cool very fast, which is one thing that causes crystals to form - faster cooling. So maybe the Bad God's Tower was underwater when it formed?
Oh! I guess I missed the Ireland photo, after I looked at this story again. The ocean front place.
Yes, there's better pics of it, it's called the 'Giant's Causeway'-- there's good pics of it and Devil's Tower in a Russian video I saw called 'There Are No Forests on Earth', or something like that.
Now that I think about it, that would fit. The Western Interior Seaway from ancient Earth. It probably covered some of that region. Its Wyoming, and I know some of this ocean was close by in Colorado. There are lots of fossils to be found there as proof.
Also the top of the Devil's Tower is flat! I'm thinking that is the top of the ocean level from the time. Weird to look at that photo and realize all of that was probably underwater at one point! Its COOL.