Scientists Find Our World Could Be Ruled By Secret Patterns | A Natural Code

Scientists are using Alan Turing's theory about patterns to grasp a better understanding of nature's hidden design; from tracking migrating birds, to conserving whale sharks across the world.

This is a short wildlife documentary about the fascinating Turing patterns in nature and how they may help endangered species around the world.

The first half of the film introduces three characters, which will take us on a quest to explain who Alan Turing was and what is his connection with patterns in nature.

The second part of the film is showing how these patterns can help with conservation, by focussing on the whale shark patterns.

The viewers will feel like going on a fascinating journey, from the secret world of mathematical ecology to incredible underwater scenes.

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Featured team:
Kriss Ceuca

Natasha Ellison

Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme's website:

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[TommoCarroll]

Patterns + nature is one of those things that always gets me so hyped. That link between maths and natural phenomena.... *chef's kiss*

[regolith]

The central thesis of the video - that spot/stripe patterns can be explained as a self-controlled activator/inhibitor reaction - can be explained in 1 minute. It was stretched into a 10 minute video, albeit with many lovely shots. I didn’t dislike the video but it felt more like a nature appreciation video or art project, rather than a science education video. I’m sure someone’s gonna take offense that I’m not all “omigawwd so beautiful I luuuuv dis so muuuuch”.

[whatwilliswastalkingabout]

I really appreciate the way this was presented. Calm, elegant and very informative. Here’s hoping other channels see this and realize that flashy, over-produced garbage isn’t the best way to get information across.

[GyanAddict]

RIP and respect to Turing, Tesla, Farnsworth and many others whom the world is yet to find out.

[RussellMWebb]

I've been telling people, for years, that animal markings could just be laser SCANNED in order to create a database of the particular species, saving much time in the field and in the lab. Zebras came to mind, because their patterns look similar to FINGERPRINTS of humans that have been scanned, stored and retrieved for years. Isn't today's technology more capable than ever of accomplishing this on a wider spectrum of animal and plant markings?

I enjoyed the show very much, because it's the first time I've seen my theory reported! You pointed out, the sheer number and types of animal [and plant] markings that could be scanned and stored as I indicated; even the scale patterns on reptiles, plant leaves and other objects. Perhaps, some day, Peepaw's spider veins could be scanned and evaluated similarly against the database of others.

[soumyadipsarkar]

Oh wow. I have always believed that there's a universal pattern of this universe of ours, which just waiting to be understood. 😊 So glad to see this

[oktheneggscape]

Let's hear about how the government treated Turing after the war

[Ashantia]

A natural code proves a designer of the universe
In every other case that will be our logical conclusion

[vikash]

It's so beautiful and fascinating to know how maths and bio two stranger field can collab so well to give us a deeper understanding of nature ....keep inspiring

[outresru]

the thing is our brain loves seeings patterns everywhere, science geeks say that everything is related to the mathematical constant "phi" but if you observe and calculate carefully, the numbers barely reach the value of phi.
I saw this from It's Okay To Be Smart's video, it was a nice video explaining how many not everything can be related

[davidarundel]

At last, more recognition for Alan Turing, the father of the computer, and the "Turing Patterns", and what else ?.

[paulcurry]

Click bait title. This isn’t about “everything in nature” is about spots on animals.

[nathanokun]

The Turing Theory given here can be expanded: It describes patterns in space (such as tiling, both standard repeating pattern and 5D Penrose Non-Repeating Pattern tiling, for example). However, recently the concept of "Time Crystals" that have cyclic repeating structures that change back and forth in pre-set patterns over time has come about (you need to supply energy for the cycle to continue in anything but a superconductor, but other than that, it runs itself). To do this in the intricate patterns that make up life, you would need something that can REMEMBER prior patterns to cycle them later without destroying the entire current setup or, if the current pattern is destroyed, replace it rapidly; that is, a form of overall controller of the entire Earth made up of the sum of all of the living things to allow them to flow as to their movement, biological changes, and so forth over a long time frame. This is particularly needed when really bad things, like the end of Cretaceous giant meteor and giant volcano major world-wide disaster. If you note the layers of ocean rock laid down just before and just after this event, you really cannot tell unless you are an expert that anything happened at all, even though the two groups of organisms that laid down their microscopic skeletons to make that rock are totally different. How long did it take for the replacements to be generated as one of the things needed to recover? If the bad time had lasted too long, almost nothing would have recovered, bad as it was. But this did not happen then nor after the Permian "Great Dying" event earlier. How long did it take for life overall to "reinvent" itself and recover? To sum up, did the recovery of these disasters have HELP of some kind...

[MichaelJONeill]

I’m glad there is an actually scientific field into this. The patterns we see in nature have always intrigued me and i always there was much more to it.

[williamzinedineh]

4:54 had he not been tortured and persecuted for who he was, you mean

[Useernaamee]

That was a whole 15 minutes of "we can identify sharks based on their patterns" Not what the title suggested

[ZacharyReese]

This documentary is fluffier than the scrambled egg tray at an Easter Sunday buffet. There’s literally only like 30 seconds of actual content here.

[dakotadad]

Whoa a 15 minute seeker video!? What a treat and a surprise!! Love it

[MrKnwbdy]

Is there some benefit using pattern recognition vs tagging the animals? If not, then don't we already collect all this type of info? What is the use of all this besides being a cool type of math for understanding how markings occur?

[ericswain]

Hate to be a pessimist but the more technology and more intelligent we think we have become the tighter and better the trap we are constructing for ourselves.