+Blu Hiubatto 'Math' is a human invention to try to understand this Cosmos. It is flawed and incomplete. We live in a age where traditional Euclidean math fails us. The things math tries to explain are much more complex than our comprehension of 'numbers'.
It seems like they chose the hexagon shape when in fact this is not true. The bees make wax circles at first, but wax is not solid and under its own weight all the little circles turn to hexagons. This is very efficient, because making circles is simpler, but hexagons have larger storage area for the same wax volume.
It`s not that they "choose" to build hexagons, it seems infact that they stick to circes/tubes, but wax as a material shapes itself into form because the stress in the walls leads the material to an optimal shape (it is assumed that it needs a certain enviromental temperature). My leightweight professor demonstrated this with paper tubes he glued together and the more of them you add, the more the middle part turns into hexagonal shapes. You can create a similar effect with soap bubbles, too. There are scientific studies on rather normal materials that form themselves into certain shapes if you just apply certain values of force, temperature, or even current etc.
That sounds work, I always wonder if there are some natural assists while building the honeycomb, simply because the hexagonal lattice structure is too precise and uniform. it might resemble more to something related to the nature of the material rather than the sheer work by bees.
Not so. When bees were presented with comb in cylindrical cells by a scientist, they will still built hexagonal cells. I also watch them build burr comb in my observation hive, and the cell walls already are hexagonal as they start the edges on the glass
Ha! Great question, Denis Dionigi Del Grande! Fore more about bird migration, you should check out this lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/bird-migration-a-perilous-journey-alyssa-klavans
TED-Ed He's not asking for the explanation of bird migration. He's saying anthropomorphizing instinct-driven animals is ridiculous, and I agree. This video was disappointing. I was hoping for a brief intersection of biology and mathematics, but instead I got a children's story about conscious creatures attending a nonexistent architectural school. The formulas for the efficiency of each shape are shown for barely a moment with no explanation for how they work or how hive-minded creatures might achieve them. The conclusion chucks the design up to "trial and error," but no examples of previous errors are provided. (Surely, biologists must have some idea?) TED-Ed has definitely made better videos. If "making it fun" comes at the expense of the actual education, then something is wrong.
1980rlquinn Thank you. Biologists have more than ideas about instincts. Darwin explains very well how they come to be in his book. It is one of his most original works
Yes, this video made me frown. In fact, there is evidence that shows that bees actually lay them as circular open "bubbles", and heat/surface attention stretches them into hexagons. www.nature.com/news/how-honeycombs-can-build-themselves-1.13398
cklinejr i honestly cant believe i finished it. they didnt even answer the question in the title. they just explained why hexagons are an efficient design.
We love them too, Zoink foo! Did you see Jordan Reeves's comment? "You all should check out the dig deeper section of this lesson! There's so many TED-Ed lessons that involve honey bees. ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-honeybees-love-hexagons-zack-patterson-and-andy-peterson#digdeeper" Let us know what you think!
The more you think of this the more interesting it becomes. This is a mathematical idea that the hexagon is the shape that tessellates with itself while still encompassing the greatest area with the least perimeter. We understand this through concepts in geometry. How bees figured this out is just amazing.
They don’t make hexagons. They make circles. Six circles fit around a circle the same size and make a hexagon. And this is repeated. You see sixes a lot, even in atomic particles. And fives - which contain the phi proportion.
um, no. bees actually make combs in circle shape, and when they melt on each other, they get the hexagon shape. please don't create information noise. it's hard enough.
I am a beekeeper, I do not know everything about bees, but I have read a great deal. Bees make cells that are round. These cells are stacked next to each other and become hexagons. The bees make the cells size in proportion to their own size.
+Efe Aydal In the Engineering and metallurgy world that is how we get the same designs, by using circular open bubbles in effect and letting heat and surface tension find the right shape. This saves both us and them time and energy. Does that mean they are as smart as us? No but that does mean that they seem to know what they are doing.
Thanks for the videos explaining this I think there is a small error in the balloon form of the beehive which is the format of a wasp hive not the bee hive Also, the bee hexagonal are not horizontal but also tilting a bit so no back dropping. This increases the efficiency avoiding dropping nectar (as when it reaches honey level it is closed) Thanks
Bees don't create perfect hexagon but close to hexagon most likely due to six legs but surface tension before wax dries perfects those imperfect hexagons. In fact it's quite possible evolution would have selected out species of bees that could not create shapes that would end up as hexagons so what survives is the most optimum solution
If I remember my Huber correct (François Huber is the blind Swiss naturalist who laid the foundations for the scientific knowledge of the honey bee), bees start out by constructing circles by rotating their body around a fixed point. Each circle then changes into a hexagon as they continue the construction of each cell because of a specific property of the wax which appears a certain temperature, that alters the physical properties of the wax: the gaps between the circles contract and the sides become straight, effectively turning what was a circle into a hexagon. Saying that the bees "chose the hexagon" is a strange formulation. Instead, I'd say the hexagon shape appeared naturally.
Basically we can all save space from our growing populating, by creating a large building that has holes in the shapes of hexagons, and inside these hexagons are our beds.
It’s not wrong, they make circles and allow them to conveniently become hexagons. It’s not intentional but it benefits them and so they evolved to do this.
Lol I don't think bees thought about wasted space but It was more pragmatic building process of going from one side of the wall to the next. Also they have compound eye with many ommatidia which has hexagonical-like resolution. They see through hexagon vision field and so they follow and build only hexagon-like patterns.
actually i think their eyes have hexagonal lenses because of the same principles mentioned in the video. you can pack the most number of lenses on a given area using the least number of cells.
Thanks for the misleading animation of “Honey Bees” flying around a bald-faced hornet nest 0:34 Bees can produce wax for comb, but don’t build with “paper” like wasps do by chewing up wood fiber. It’s the bald-faced hornet (a kind of wasp) that makes a football shaped nest like that. Honey bees make their homes in tree hollows, rock overhangs or a man made structure. Most of the other 20,000 bee species nest in the ground (& don’t make honey. *Bumble bees are one of the few that nest in the ground and make honey.) In taxonomy, bees & wasps are in the same order (along with ants). That’s about as close as cats & wolves. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee
i think hexagonal structure are (is) more robust than a cube and triangle , actually a square can hold more space than a hexagonal shape but as he say there still empty space between circles, but as a shape is nearest to a circle-like it can be more resistant, a circle can resist to a lot of weight the intensity of weight divide into the circle circumference. we can use a cube it can be arranged so it leave no hallow area between them, but a cube may will be smashed at a less weight than a hexagon can tote.
+ilyass nadah When you talk of a single object, you use 'is' rather than 'are'. So it would be "I think the hexagonal structure is more robust than a cube or triangle". Every time you used a comma there was supposed to be a period. The way you used a period at the end is the way you use periods, while commas are used for various other reasons, such as how I used that one you just saw.
A better explanation: It's the natural process of selection. The hives made of circles and other shapes eventually died off because of inefficiency, and eventually all the correct hexagonal hives spread out and that was used.
Free market capitalism applies selective pressures to products and businesses, which creates a sort of economic evolution. Survival of the fittest, the fittest being those who maximize profits.
Was there any other shape? To say that they settle to this one because it was more efficient, you first most know they used other shape. Bees actually lay it in circles and later, it forms hexagon. Maybe there aren't even trying to make it in that shape.
pedroesrt89 you don't even need to use any units, and just give the ratio. And also ounce is a unit of force, not mass, so it is also wrong to use ounces because of that as well as it not being metric.
I've heard from somewhere that hexagonal hives are more stable and strong than circled hives,in fact, in extreme weather conditions they don't collapse.
and on B side (it has 2sides), the center of the those hexagons is at the joints of the hexagons of the A side, so that the thin bottom has a rigidity. you should add that to the video.
They are making circles. Six circles fit around one the same side and make a hexagon. Just like we do with a compass. If you placed balls or circles of the same size next to each other it will form Tessellating hexagons with the space in between it th-cam.com/video/8OLjiBbDDgQ/w-d-xo.html
The buzzing of the hive causes a vibration that resonates at a specific frequency. There is a corresponding shape that manifests as a result of the vibration. This is what creates the hexagon shape of the comb.
i reckon making perfect uniform circles must be smart. all this theorising about experimentation over millions of years as claimed by the commentator is nonsense.
I don't think this is entirely accurate. Bees form the comb structure as an array of cylinders (circular), but given the warm temperatures in the hive and malleable materials, these cylinders steadily compress into their most stable state. Seeing as circle is surrounded by exactly 6 others, the 6-sided hexagon forms.
That is correct. The circular cells gets transformed into hexagons by surface tension as the hive gets warmer from the bees’s activity. Like soap bubbles attaching themselves in hexagon shape.
Another reason bees use hexagons is because it requires the least amount of wax since it shares its walls with more hexagons than almost any other shape.
Solid particles in the melted thick liquid takes up the hexagon shape. One can experiment it. Heat the oil in a pan. Do not over heat it. Now put some mustard seeds in to it. Now you can see that the seeds inside will take hexagon shapes. If you keep heating the oil, the hexagon will break and the mustard will start crackling.
There is hard work put into this video but the message is very very very bad. I hate it want scientist try to explain evolution using a purpose driven explanation. This is simply wrong, confuse and mislead new comers studying evolution. Please save the silly story telling and stick to trail and error and natural selection. If you had to use silly examples, at lease make it so that it fits the narrative of natural selection
Nicholas C. No, I am sadden, not offended, because they could not explain evolution correctly while it was clear that they are trying their best to. Most likely you cannot explain chaos theory correctly either. I just feel nothing but sadness for you.
Guys, the point of the video was why a hexagon is the ideal shape for a beehive, not how the bees started building hexagonal cells in their beehives. They were just using an anecdote to prove their point.
Anyone you put at .25 speed sounds like he just got back from the dentist with the anesthesia still wearing out. Or, in other words, just high as fuck.
1.1 mill people have watched this and been mislead. This video should be corrected. Bees make circular cells which forms hexagons through surface tension. So much incorrect folklore being spread about hexagons, waggle dances and other aspects of bee life. The hexagon is a consequence rather than a design element. PLEASE CORRECT THE VIDEO, YOU ARE MISLEADING PEOPLE.
I totally agreed !!!....this is so misleading...and should be corrected... The hexagon shape is just physics...not design !!!...they start in a circular shape...and then become hexagonal because of surface tension and pressure... There's a lot footage showing the initial state of honeycombs cells...
do you thing its possible that something programmed the bees to make the honey comb this way? cause we as humans need to use instruments to measure and make accurate calculation, yet this simple creature instinctively know how to do these things. maybe they are programmed like like biological machines to do there task.
It's not about being absolutely accurate down to thousandths of a degree - it's about being accurate enough to fulfill the purpose. Humans don't have to use tools to make approximate shapes. I'm sure you could split a circle into three sections with internal angle 120 degrees roughly by eye.
Instinct is the natural explanation for behavior/awareness that animals have from birth. It evolves just like organisms' physical biology evolves as well. Just as birds have beaks, they have instinct - both are effective due to developing over long periods of time. A simple set of rules can sometimes result in some very interesting results. Take a look at the field of fractals, cellular automatons, or other number-related patterns.
Along with what was already said to you, natural selection and evolution would be the "programmers" of these instincts. Besides, just because something is intuitive to another organism but isn't to us doesn't mean much. We just didn't need to be as geometrically precise as the bee in order to survive. I also want to know why you called them simple creatures?
Honey bees are indeed fascinating. In our family summer house we have around 21 beehives. It's very interesting to take a look at what they are doing and how they behave .I once heard the Queen honey bee piping.
+koko pariz Each interior angle of an octagon is 135 degrees. A plane of 360 degrees can NOT be divided by 135 degrees. In fact, since the interior angle of any convex polygon is less than 180 degrees, the number of interior angles a plane can hold side by side is 360/(less than 180), which is greater than 2. So the minimum whole number is 3, which requires the interior angle of the polygon must be equal to or less than 360/3 =120 degrees. And that is a hexagon. Polygons with more than 6 equal interior angles (e.g. heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, ...) will all have their interior angles greater than 120 degrees.
Lara Orane Easy.Using the following fallacious logic: A can cause B, B, therefore A was used, in this case, A being A God and B being Beautiful, Amazing and/or Wonderful things in nature. And apparently G+ youtube comments is not working very well today.
So the bees come to that conclusion through evolution ..!! To understand, you have to think like a bee.... who goes to a geometry class and asks a teacher ... LMAO Intelligent Design , Intelligent Designer , God the creator of all things ;)
+Aaron Cruz well that's also how humans make hexagons from metal and other liquidous products... You can't discount they they know the circles will become hexagons
In Surah Nahl 16, Ayahs (68-69) Allah says: And your Lord inspired the bee: “Set up hives in the mountains, and in the trees, and in what they (people) construct.” Then eat of all the fruits, and go along the pathways of your Lord, with precision. From their bellies emerges a fluid of varying shades of colour, containing healing for the people. Surely in this is a sign for people who reflect.
"bees know the roundness of earth"
*_flat earthers have left the chat_*
Flat-earthers: The bees work for the government
Duy Nguyen they sting us because we broke the law-
in other words, bees are smarter than some humans
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Yes. This is a good conclusion for this comment. End it.
Once I saw a bee bump into the same wall five times before it decided to go the other way.
lol
6th time's the charm.
And it's still definitely better at math than me.
ARandomGuy l
What?
And I thought bees were only good at spelling
xD
Bees are good at, both Spelling and, Math.
And they're also good at quizzes!!!
😂
Don’t get it
That moment you realize bees are better at maths than you...
Blu Hiubatto The bees didn't even really know that math...
+Blu Hiubatto Nature is better than you at everything.
+Lucian Willi i bet he can type and watch youtube videos better than anything in nature
weylin6 Yes, and that is *such* an accomplishment for humanity.
+Blu Hiubatto 'Math' is a human invention to try to understand this Cosmos.
It is flawed and incomplete. We live in a age where traditional Euclidean math fails us.
The things math tries to explain are much more complex than our comprehension of 'numbers'.
Why do honeybees love hexagons? Cause hexagons are the bestagons
yes
Praise the hexagon
Because B E E S !
yes
Grey?😏
The mathematic term for "fit together with no spaces" is "tesselate."
Nice
magical
Alt J.
Yeah I remember doing tessellations in school
nerd
It seems like they chose the hexagon shape when in fact this is not true. The bees make wax circles at first, but wax is not solid and under its own weight all the little circles turn to hexagons. This is very efficient, because making circles is simpler, but hexagons have larger storage area for the same wax volume.
That doesn't mean they don't make the circles knowing in their little bee minds it will become a hexagon.
Exactly! The bees knew the honey would turn into hexagons, so they made circles at first!
Under honeycomb temperatures shift the circles shrink and overlap over themselves turning into hexagonal shapes
Dang it I made this comment without realizing that someone else already did ;-;
Was gonna say
It`s not that they "choose" to build hexagons, it seems infact that they stick to circes/tubes, but wax as a material shapes itself into form because the stress in the walls leads the material to an optimal shape (it is assumed that it needs a certain enviromental temperature). My leightweight professor demonstrated this with paper tubes he glued together and the more of them you add, the more the middle part turns into hexagonal shapes.
You can create a similar effect with soap bubbles, too.
There are scientific studies on rather normal materials that form themselves into certain shapes if you just apply certain values of force, temperature, or even current etc.
TED-ED, YOU HAVE FAILED ME ONCE MORE.
Ya :D
That sounds work, I always wonder if there are some natural assists while building the honeycomb, simply because the hexagonal lattice structure is too precise and uniform. it might resemble more to something related to the nature of the material rather than the sheer work by bees.
Not so. When bees were presented with comb in cylindrical cells by a scientist, they will still built hexagonal cells. I also watch them build burr comb in my observation hive, and the cell walls already are hexagonal as they start the edges on the glass
Yes this is true
Simple answer: *Hexagons are the Bestagons*
YES YES YES
I see you are enlightened.
Yes yes cgp grey
ah yes, CGP Grey.
Why? Because bees, bees are the best and only build the bestagon, the hexagon
You gotta fly like a butterfly and.... calculate like a bee? :p
BRUH I'm kinda laughing for no reason
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaheeheeheehehhehhehhahaheeheeheeheehehhehheeheeheeheehehhahheehahahahehhehhahahahaheh is this too mad-ish
It sounds like the bees actually choose the exagon.
Do birds migrate to the south because they've seen some advertisement on TV?
Ha! Great question, Denis Dionigi Del Grande! Fore more about bird migration, you should check out this lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/bird-migration-a-perilous-journey-alyssa-klavans
TED-Ed He's not asking for the explanation of bird migration. He's saying anthropomorphizing instinct-driven animals is ridiculous, and I agree.
This video was disappointing. I was hoping for a brief intersection of biology and mathematics, but instead I got a children's story about conscious creatures attending a nonexistent architectural school. The formulas for the efficiency of each shape are shown for barely a moment with no explanation for how they work or how hive-minded creatures might achieve them. The conclusion chucks the design up to "trial and error," but no examples of previous errors are provided. (Surely, biologists must have some idea?)
TED-Ed has definitely made better videos. If "making it fun" comes at the expense of the actual education, then something is wrong.
1980rlquinn Thank you. Biologists have more than ideas about instincts. Darwin explains very well how they come to be in his book. It is one of his most original works
Yes, this video made me frown. In fact, there is evidence that shows that bees actually lay them as circular open "bubbles", and heat/surface attention stretches them into hexagons. www.nature.com/news/how-honeycombs-can-build-themselves-1.13398
+Denis Dionigi Del Grande
Well, it is perhaps less original than his foray into abstract sculpture, but it is more successful.
To understand, you have to think like a bee.... who goes to a geometry class and asks a teacher. Um, why not just think like a geometry teacher?
because geometry teacher do not produce honey? Shit, i replied to 2 years ago comment.
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@Dani Mew Blitz shocks..i replied to your 6 month old comment
Bee is more linked to the video story line
@@bayuidhamfathurachman1276 and guess what I'm watching 3 years ago comment
Maybe they play alot of Sid meier's Civilization ?
**Crickets chirping**
Even those dumbasses needed three sequels to get the shape right
No, squares are superior.
I prefer unspecified hologram polygons. Much more unpredictable
Antonio Klaić I don't really care about squares or hexes, it's just that Civ IV is the best Civ game.
whoever wrote the script for this is a goofball.
Why?
Its silly
"we want the one that will work the best"
cklinejr i honestly cant believe i finished it. they didnt even answer the question in the title. they just explained why hexagons are an efficient design.
They love it cause it's efficient in wax and space?
dabz david No. If ya want the reason I already answered it in another comment.
I love honey bees, they're such genius insects!
We love them too, Zoink foo! Did you see Jordan Reeves's comment? "You all should check out the dig deeper section of this lesson! There's so many TED-Ed lessons that involve honey bees. ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-honeybees-love-hexagons-zack-patterson-and-andy-peterson#digdeeper" Let us know what you think!
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I’m everywhere, guess I must be famous.
they aren't really that smart to be honest, it's mostly just programmed into them by Evolution?
The Brutal Bros it's inspired to them by God Almighty
winning &making peace-I so glad you said this....AMEN!
The more you think of this the more interesting it becomes. This is a mathematical idea that the hexagon is the shape that tessellates with itself while still encompassing the greatest area with the least perimeter. We understand this through concepts in geometry. How bees figured this out is just amazing.
They don’t make hexagons. They make circles. Six circles fit around a circle the same size and make a hexagon. And this is repeated. You see sixes a lot, even in atomic particles. And fives - which contain the phi proportion.
Math is universal to anyone or any species. No matter where in the universe a circle is a circle
Hexagons are the BESTAGONS!
Hexagons are the bestagons.
As a wise stickman once said
"Hexagons are the bestagons"
um, no. bees actually make combs in circle shape, and when they melt on each other, they get the hexagon shape. please don't create information noise. it's hard enough.
+Efe Aydal No, they make hexagons. Just like wasps do.
I am a beekeeper, I do not know everything about bees, but I have read a great deal. Bees make cells that are round. These cells are stacked next to each other and become hexagons. The bees make the cells size in proportion to their own size.
+Efe Aydal In the Engineering and metallurgy world that is how we get the same designs, by using circular open bubbles in effect and letting heat and surface tension find the right shape. This saves both us and them time and energy. Does that mean they are as smart as us? No but that does mean that they seem to know what they are doing.
+Eugege Bell how do bees sleep and how do they make honey
+Efe Aydal It doesn't matter what method they use to produce hexagonal cells, the important thing is that the final result is hexagonal cells.
0:26 When a literal Bee is smarter than a flat earther
Thanks for the videos explaining this
I think there is a small error in the balloon form of the beehive which is the format of a wasp hive not the bee hive
Also, the bee hexagonal are not horizontal but also tilting a bit so no back dropping. This increases the efficiency avoiding dropping nectar (as when it reaches honey level it is closed)
Thanks
1:01 Because hexagons are the bestagons!
when bees are better at math than me
But they aren't because you know what an octagon is
Shhh!
An octagon doesn't work in this scenario, though. Only triangle, squares and hexagons do.
not the point
Let's tessellate.
Smart enough to calculate the perfect shape, but not smart enough to avoid my rolled up newspaper.
I mean, they do make circles of wax but as they go in and out, the chambers slowly begin to take a shape of a hexagon
This is not an evolutionary process by trial and error. It is an incredible masterpiece of an intelligent designer.
Bees don't create perfect hexagon but close to hexagon most likely due to six legs but surface tension before wax dries perfects those imperfect hexagons. In fact it's quite possible evolution would have selected out species of bees that could not create shapes that would end up as hexagons so what survives is the most optimum solution
I don't need captions.. Her voice is so clear. Without those frustrating bg music.
The bee movie but without hexagons
If I remember my Huber correct (François Huber is the blind Swiss naturalist who laid the foundations for the scientific knowledge of the honey bee), bees start out by constructing circles by rotating their body around a fixed point. Each circle then changes into a hexagon as they continue the construction of each cell because of a specific property of the wax which appears a certain temperature, that alters the physical properties of the wax: the gaps between the circles contract and the sides become straight, effectively turning what was a circle into a hexagon.
Saying that the bees "chose the hexagon" is a strange formulation.
Instead, I'd say the hexagon shape appeared naturally.
Bees actually make round cells, and those cells soften from the bees' body heat.
They eventually reach the hexagon shape with time.
Whoever designed the Bees, is seriously Supreme and Almighty 😮
Basically we can all save space from our growing populating, by creating a large building that has holes in the shapes of hexagons, and inside these hexagons are our beds.
What the hell are you talking about?
+JustMegawatt, if we lived at the density that people live in Manhattan, the entire global population could fit in New Zealand:
This is totally wrong. Bees make round cells and the surface tension of the warm wax pulls it into the hexagonal shape.
It’s not wrong, they make circles and allow them to conveniently become hexagons. It’s not intentional but it benefits them and so they evolved to do this.
@@thedude4039 that's exactly what he said🙄
Lol I don't think bees thought about wasted space but It was more pragmatic building process of going from one side of the wall to the next. Also they have compound eye with many ommatidia which has hexagonical-like resolution. They see through hexagon vision field and so they follow and build only hexagon-like patterns.
actually i think their eyes have hexagonal lenses because of the same principles mentioned in the video. you can pack the most number of lenses on a given area using the least number of cells.
The video suggests it was by choice though. Are you suggesting that bees chose to have hexagonal lenses?
Hippy Lemonz
it's the most efficient shape regardless of whether it was built on purpose or through natural selection.
bananian You missed the shitty joke
Hippy Lemonz
I did, In fact, I still dont' get it. D:
Thanks for the misleading animation of “Honey Bees” flying around a bald-faced hornet nest 0:34
Bees can produce wax for comb, but don’t build with “paper” like wasps do by chewing up wood fiber. It’s the bald-faced hornet (a kind of wasp) that makes a football shaped nest like that.
Honey bees make their homes in tree hollows, rock overhangs or a man made structure. Most of the other 20,000 bee species nest in the ground (& don’t make honey. *Bumble bees are one of the few that nest in the ground and make honey.)
In taxonomy, bees & wasps are in the same order (along with ants). That’s about as close as cats & wolves.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee
i think hexagonal structure are (is) more robust than a cube and triangle , actually a square can hold more space than a hexagonal shape but as he say there still empty space between circles, but as a shape is nearest to a circle-like it can be more resistant, a circle can resist to a lot of weight the intensity of weight divide into the circle circumference. we can use a cube it can be arranged so it leave no hallow area between them, but a cube may will be smashed at a less weight than a hexagon can tote.
So many grammatical errors I can't even.
may you show me what is correct please. i appreciate any one help
+ilyass nadah When you talk of a single object, you use 'is' rather than 'are'. So it would be "I think the hexagonal structure is more robust than a cube or triangle". Every time you used a comma there was supposed to be a period. The way you used a period at the end is the way you use periods, while commas are used for various other reasons, such as how I used that one you just saw.
+No videos here thank you
To bee or not to bee, that is the question.
And this is one of the reasons why I love TED videos.
Great video, as always.
This video reminded me of those weird math questions that make no sense and use applications you will never need to know.
A better explanation:
It's the natural process of selection. The hives made of circles and other shapes eventually died off because of inefficiency, and eventually all the correct hexagonal hives spread out and that was used.
Free market capitalism applies selective pressures to products and businesses, which creates a sort of economic evolution. Survival of the fittest, the fittest being those who maximize profits.
Was there any other shape? To say that they settle to this one because it was more efficient, you first most know they used other shape. Bees actually lay it in circles and later, it forms hexagon. Maybe there aren't even trying to make it in that shape.
Your wrong they are always circles first then melt into hexagons. So your WRONG.
raxkar your right though.
Hexagons are the bestagons, thats why
Great video! But why ounce and not the mass in SI (gram) ?
pedroesrt89 Ya I thought TedEd won't be metrically challenged.
pedroesrt89 you don't even need to use any units, and just give the ratio. And also ounce is a unit of force, not mass, so it is also wrong to use ounces because of that as well as it not being metric.
My math teacher gave me homework to watch this video
Next step, bee nuclear fission
Paquimex nah, they'll pass that right on by and straight to cold fusion.
all bees make circles, but then the heat of their wings forms circles into hexagons
Hexagons are the bestagons.
6 years later, anyway.
I've heard from somewhere that hexagonal hives are more stable and strong than circled hives,in fact, in extreme weather conditions they don't collapse.
does that mean ancient bee hives had different shapes?
Exactly my thoughts! Hahahahaha As suggested in the video, Bee hives might have triangles, squares and other shapes too.
No.
No they are always circles first then become hexagons because they melt but they melt into a hexagon because that is the most efficient shape.
No
I'm gonna say No like others did.
No.
and on B side (it has 2sides), the center of the those hexagons is at the joints of the hexagons of the A side, so that the thin bottom has a rigidity. you should add that to the video.
Actually the hexagonal shape comes from the wax drying out. It’s a very efficient shape that is found in a lot of places in nature
They are making circles. Six circles fit around one the same side and make a hexagon. Just like we do with a compass. If you placed balls or circles of the same size next to each other it will form Tessellating hexagons with the space in between it
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Mathematicians after being a genius in math:
"Well, maybe I am a bee"
Bees can't do math, because bees don't go to school.
But they obviously work harder than those who do!
How did the first teacher learn, then?
Life was the teacher, the ancestors of the bees were the students and their books or museum of knoledge is DNA.
The buzzing of the hive causes a vibration that resonates at a specific frequency. There is a corresponding shape that manifests as a result of the vibration. This is what creates the hexagon shape of the comb.
Actually a newly built bee hive's cells are circular shaped, and those holes gradually wear off to make hexagons. Bees aren't that smart.
i reckon making perfect uniform circles must be smart. all this theorising about experimentation over millions of years as claimed by the commentator is nonsense.
This is the only TEDed video that I understand cause the script is more like a story
I don't think this is entirely accurate. Bees form the comb structure as an array of cylinders (circular), but given the warm temperatures in the hive and malleable materials, these cylinders steadily compress into their most stable state. Seeing as circle is surrounded by exactly 6 others, the 6-sided hexagon forms.
That is correct. The circular cells gets transformed into hexagons by surface tension as the hive gets warmer from the bees’s activity. Like soap bubbles attaching themselves in hexagon shape.
Another reason bees use hexagons is because it requires the least amount of wax since it shares its walls with more hexagons than almost any other shape.
"... comprenhend the roundness of the world" They are smarter than some humans who think Earth ia flat.
Bees look more futuristic than us.
The world is poorly designed, but copying nature helps.
-Bomimicry
Solid particles in the melted thick liquid takes up the hexagon shape. One can experiment it. Heat the oil in a pan. Do not over heat it. Now put some mustard seeds in to it. Now you can see that the seeds inside will take hexagon shapes. If you keep heating the oil, the hexagon will break and the mustard will start crackling.
hexagons
are the
*bestagons*
You make bees are smarter than me in math.
There is hard work put into this video but the message is very very very bad. I hate it want scientist try to explain evolution using a purpose driven explanation. This is simply wrong, confuse and mislead new comers studying evolution. Please save the silly story telling and stick to trail and error and natural selection. If you had to use silly examples, at lease make it so that it fits the narrative of natural selection
Boris Chan why are you offended by creationist biology, is it because you're realizing its more credible than your chaos theory??
Nicholas C.
No, I am sadden, not offended, because they could not explain evolution correctly while it was clear that they are trying their best to.
Most likely you cannot explain chaos theory correctly either. I just feel nothing but sadness for you.
Boris Chan why are u sad for me, by what logic have you arrived to the conclusion that I am in a state of mind that is pitiable or saddening
***** Such a lust for revenge! WHO!!!
Guys, the point of the video was why a hexagon is the ideal shape for a beehive, not how the bees started building hexagonal cells in their beehives. They were just using an anecdote to prove their point.
Hexagons are the Bestagons
0:27 and bees can even comprehend the ROUNDNESS of the earth
Flat earther : NUH UH
So not only are bees good at spelling, they’re good at math too???? Incredible !!
Put it at 0:30 and play it at 0.25 speed
how?
What...the..fuck?
Anyone you put at .25 speed sounds like he just got back from the dentist with the anesthesia still wearing out. Or, in other words, just high as fuck.
How do you play youtube video's at different speeds? i.e. 0.25x ???
You need to use html 5 instead of flash, it's in the youtube optins.
my apartment is not just my home, it is also where I store my honey
Which species of bees produce milk?
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Boo-Bees
Octagons are okay I guess but however, you must understand that hexagons are *truly* The bestagons!
im sorry but i dont believe that bees attended a geometry class.
i didnt know bee's had to go to geometry school
me neither XD
at :30 honeybees flying around a wasp nest. honeybees smart. TED Ed, meh.
this just feels like a last minute homework assignment gone wrong
*And can even comprehend roundness of The Eath*
Flat Earthers:
**Triggered**
If I don’t sneak a bee into my math test I’m screwed.
1.1 mill people have watched this and been mislead. This video should be corrected. Bees make circular cells which forms hexagons through surface tension. So much incorrect folklore being spread about hexagons, waggle dances and other aspects of bee life. The hexagon is a consequence rather than a design element. PLEASE CORRECT THE VIDEO, YOU ARE MISLEADING PEOPLE.
I totally agreed !!!....this is so misleading...and should be corrected...
The hexagon shape is just physics...not design !!!...they start in a circular shape...and then become hexagonal because of surface tension and pressure...
There's a lot footage showing the initial state of honeycombs cells...
me, watching this after already seeing "hexagons are the bestagons,": i a m 4 p a r a l l e l u n i v e r s e s a h e a d o f y o u
Ya like jazz?
Hexagons ARE the bestagons!
No "evolution" necessary, God knew what He was doing!
Bees know much mathematics than I do...
do you thing its possible that something programmed the bees to make the honey comb this way? cause we as humans need to use instruments to measure and make accurate calculation, yet this simple creature instinctively know how to do these things. maybe they are programmed like like biological machines to do there task.
It's not about being absolutely accurate down to thousandths of a degree - it's about being accurate enough to fulfill the purpose.
Humans don't have to use tools to make approximate shapes. I'm sure you could split a circle into three sections with internal angle 120 degrees roughly by eye.
Instinct is the natural explanation for behavior/awareness that animals have from birth. It evolves just like organisms' physical biology evolves as well. Just as birds have beaks, they have instinct - both are effective due to developing over long periods of time. A simple set of rules can sometimes result in some very interesting results. Take a look at the field of fractals, cellular automatons, or other number-related patterns.
Along with what was already said to you, natural selection and evolution would be the "programmers" of these instincts. Besides, just because something is intuitive to another organism but isn't to us doesn't mean much. We just didn't need to be as geometrically precise as the bee in order to survive. I also want to know why you called them simple creatures?
Honey bees are indeed fascinating. In our family summer house we have around 21 beehives. It's very interesting to take a look at what they are doing and how they behave .I once heard the Queen honey bee piping.
beeautiful
Honey Bees are great 🐝🌻🐝
Because they like Crysis?
I love this video, It's easier for kids to understand videos like this.
y not a octagon or a dodecagon
koko pariz Volume of wax vs Volume of honey.
It'd take more honey to make the octagon or dodecagon out of wax. Plus, hexagons tessilate better.
tnx
+koko pariz Plus they don't fit together, like a cirlce.
+koko pariz Each interior angle of an octagon is 135 degrees. A plane of 360 degrees can NOT be divided by 135 degrees.
In fact, since the interior angle of any convex polygon is less than 180 degrees, the number of interior angles a plane can hold side by side is 360/(less than 180), which is greater than 2. So the minimum whole number is 3, which requires the interior angle of the polygon must be equal to or less than 360/3 =120 degrees. And that is a hexagon. Polygons with more than 6 equal interior angles (e.g. heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, ...) will all have their interior angles greater than 120 degrees.
+willway1234 That's what +NeodymiumAecium5 said.
that is astonishingly smart for such a specie
How can somebody deny a god after watching this, its really amazing.
"Because amazing things, therefore god" is not a valid argument.
Can't God do amazing amazing things.!?!?
+Sol Kraiem That wasn't the argument. The argument is that amazing things do not necessarily require a god.
What? How did you come to that conclusion?
Lara Orane Easy.Using the following fallacious logic: A can cause B, B, therefore A was used, in this case, A being A God and B being Beautiful, Amazing and/or Wonderful things in nature.
And apparently G+ youtube comments is not working very well today.
Mind Blown. Thank yo for this video guys !!
So the bees come to that conclusion through evolution ..!!
To understand, you have to think like a bee.... who goes to a geometry class and asks a teacher ... LMAO
Intelligent Design , Intelligent Designer , God the creator of all things ;)
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No veil needed for my bees. Theyre some super mellow girls.
And this is all from evolution, bassed upon what works...
+CommanderLVJ1 No, they start off as circles, but melt onto each other to make hexagons.
+Aaron Cruz well that's also how humans make hexagons from metal and other liquidous products... You can't discount they they know the circles will become hexagons
Plot twist: it's the baby bees that make them hexagons
In Surah Nahl 16, Ayahs (68-69) Allah says:
And your Lord inspired the bee: “Set up hives in the mountains, and in the trees, and in what they (people) construct.” Then eat of all the fruits, and go along the pathways of your Lord, with precision. From their bellies emerges a fluid of varying shades of colour, containing healing for the people. Surely in this is a sign for people who reflect.