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Why don’t we understand turbulence?
Posted Thu February 08, 2007 @04:24PM
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Help Desk A reader wrote in about an interesting Wired article: Why don’t we understand turbulence?.
The trouble is complexity. When a stream of water or air goes turbulent, groups of molecules form vortices of widely varying sizes that interact in seemingly random ways. To determine the outcome, we’d have to measure the initial conditions to an impractical degree of precision. And in any case, tracking a zillion particles is beyond the reach of any conceivable computer.

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