The dramatically repeating patterns I get so often when photographing falling water drops cannot be explained through any conventional scientific theory or natural explanation. But what about very unconventional "edge science" fringe theories outside of the mainstream? One such theory is the very innovative theory of morphic resonance advanced by biologist Rupert Sheldrake. Probably the best way to become familiar with the theory is to read Sheldrake's book A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation, which can be read for free online by using this link.
Page 97 gives a diagram partially illustrating the idea of morphic resonance. It is the idea that the existence of particular forms in the past somehow mysteriously causes such forms to reappear. According to the theory of morphic resonance, a speck-sized human egg may grow into a human form (not specified by DNA) merely because this has happened so many times in the past. Sheldrake's idea is that somehow nature can perform amazing feats of organization because it has in some mysterious way "formed a habit" of performing such feats.
Whatever value this questionable idea may have in biology, it seems to have little value in explaining inexplicable results such as I get. The problem is that I have countless times observed dramatic and novel new forms instantly appear when I photographed falling drops of pure, clean water. So on a very common type of day when I get good results I end up publishing, I may photograph 1000+ featureless orbs when photographing falling water drops, and then BOOM, I will suddenly start to get some dramatic pattern which will show up multiple times in a photo, and then will keep appearing multiple times in almost all of many hundreds of consecutive photos. Some theory of morphic resonance might help explain why I keep getting such a pattern after previously getting it 500+ times on that day. But such a theory could never explain the first photo in the series, when the pattern suddenly showed up from nowhere, suddenly appearing multiple times in a single photo.
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