Breathtaking scene in nature (video)

This is an incredible scene from nature, and makes you know that there is a higher power.

The phenomenon in the video is known as murmuration, which is the choreography of a flock of starlings. It is mesmerizing to see these creatures in action, and it makes me wonder what is signaling them to do what they do.

As written in Wired Science:

What makes possible the uncanny coordination of these murmurations, as starling flocks are so beautifully known? Until recently, it was hard to say. Scientists had to wait for the tools of high-powered video analysis and computational modeling. And when these were finally applied to starlings, they revealed patterns known less from biology than cutting-edge physics.

Starling flocks, it turns out, are best described with equations of “critical transitions” — systems that are poised to tip, to be almost instantly and completely transformed, like metals becoming magnetized or liquid turning to gas. Each starling in a flock is connected to every other. When a flock turns in unison, it’s a phase transition.

At the individual level, the rules guiding this are relatively simple. When a neighbor moves, so do you. Depending on the flock’s size and speed and its members’ flight physiologies, the large-scale pattern changes. What’s complicated, or at least unknown, is how criticality is created and maintained.

Wow. To think some scoff at people who firmly believe in intelligent design! How could anyone watch these precise and beautiful flight patterns and not know they were choreographed by some designer somewhere?

 

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