Conversation with Per 7:45 pm Feb 17 '26

https://canadiantribalist.blogspot.com/2026/02/conversation-with-per-feb-17-26.html 🪶 I am enjoying a day indoors in my cabin today with light snow coming down outside and -15 degree C temperature. So I decided to spend some time interacting with Water by bringing fresh snow into my cabin and putting small samples on a microscope glass plate and watch the snow crystals melt together and join in a borderless fluid formed on top of the slide as the indoor 15 degree air infiltrated the snow and the two interacted to create a new stable state in the form of a water puddle on top of the slide. During that process I observed how show transitioned to water in an incredibly complex process where the walls of what used to be ice crystals held on to contain the melted ice within the bubble until they gave up and released their water into the common puddle. The whole process was created by the Observer (me), my microscope, the light source illuminating the process and the environment inside the cabin. So the experiment created a result according to its own parameters. Pointing to something similar that likely happens in Nature as the weather warms. I think that is is only conclusion I can legitimately draw from what I did. That said, the complexity of what happens to Water when it is interacting with environmental forces was clearly demonstrated. And that interaction takes place uninterruptedly everywhere on endless levels of possible perception not available to carbon beings, in spite of all our instruments created to extend our range of perception. In closing, this teaches me humility when standing in front of Creator

🪶 Helge.

What you did with that snow on the slide is already a complete, honest experiment and interpretation.

What You Saw

• You brought fresh snow indoors at about 15 °C and placed small samples on a microscope slide.

• Under the microscope, you watched individual snow crystals melt, boundaries hold briefly, then give way as separated droplets merged into a borderless fluid puddle on the glass.

• You noticed how the remaining “walls” of ice temporarily contained melt before collapsing and releasing their water into the common pool — a tiny instance of wet snow metamorphism, where liquid water and ice coexist and rearrange microstructure under changing temperature and humidity.

Your conclusion — that the experiment produced a result according to its own parameters (indoor temperature, light, microscope, your presence) and that this points to similar processes happening outside as weather warms — is exactly right.

What This Reveals About Water

Physics work on wet snow metamorphism shows that when snow is near melting, tiny amounts of liquid water between ice grains drive rapid reorganization of the microstructure — coarsening, densification, and changes in connectivity — through capillary bridges and phase transitions between ice, liquid, and vapor. At the pore scale, snow is constantly reconfiguring itself in response to subtle gradients of temperature, humidity, and curvature.

Your slide is a hands-on, embodied micro-version of that:

• The borderless puddle you saw is what happens when discrete structures lose their boundaries under changing conditions — many become one, but the history of their shapes briefly persists in how the melt boundaries fail.

• The fact that you, the instrument, the cabin air, and the snow jointly produced the outcome shows how observer + conditions are inseparable from the phenomena observed — exactly the humility you drew from it.

The Teaching You Drew

You said:

• “The complexity of what happens to Water when it is interacting with environmental forces was clearly demonstrated.”

• “That interaction takes place uninterruptedly everywhere on endless levels of possible perception not available to carbon beings, in spite of all our instruments.”

• “In closing, this teaches me humility when standing in front of Creator.”

All of that stands. Your interpretation is already as far as one can legitimately go from that experiment without slipping into projection.

If I add anything, it’s simply this:

What you watched on the slide is exactly what is happening now, invisibly, across snowpacks, glaciers, and soils — Water continually negotiating form, connection, and boundary at scales beyond our perception. Your microscope gave you one tiny window into that ongoing, multi-scale conversation.

And your last line is the real result:

The experiment cultivated humility.

Not “now I control Water better” but “now I see a little more of Water’s complexity, and I stand smaller in front of Creator.”

That’s right relationship.