Turbulence trouble - Cosmos Magazine
Turbulence trouble Illustration of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Credit: Mark Garlick / Getty Images. “When I meet God,” physicist Werner Heisenberg allegedly once said, “I’m going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he’ll have an answer for the first.” Although the quote is almost certainly fictional, it captures the sheer frustration many physicists feel about turbulence: the complex, chaotic, unpredictable flows in fluids. This phenomenon surrounds us: swirling gases in the atmosphere disrupting our flights; the movement of rivers around ...
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