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Re:To Predict Turbulence, Just Count the Puffs (2014) by anon4327733 on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @06:10PM (#10156149)
Turbulence seems to be very weird. This article talks about the birth and death rate of puffs. In a modified version of the Navier-Stokes equation Terrence Tao was able to construct logic gates and use those to create a self replicating eddy.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140224-a-fluid-new-path-in-...

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Re:To Predict Turbulence, Just Count the Puffs (2014) by JadeNB on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @09:14AM (#10158930)
> Turbulence seems to be very weird.

Right up there with "the Riemann hypothesis is quite difficult." (Of course, probably nothing beats the irony in naming of the Fundamental Lemma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_lemma_%28Langlands...).)

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