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This is at least the second time that tap dripping was involved in a scientific study. The first that I know of is when some Santa Cruz (hippie capital) studen
by mchahn 8y ago
This is at least the second time that tap dripping was involved in a scientific study.
The first that I know of is when some Santa Cruz (hippie capital) students set up electronics to record the timing of drips for a paper. They were going to break the pattern down to understand it. They tried and tried but the pattern always seemed random.
With the help of other researchers they discovered it was caused by chaos. This was the first time that chaos theory was described, although Feynman had noticed that some equations behaved weirdly when banging on his calculator.
- voxadam 8y agoInteresting. Is this the paper? https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(85)90065-9 https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(85)90065-9
- btrettel 8y agoYes. There's also this book: http://www.worldcat.org/title/dripping-faucet-as-a-model-chaotic-system/oclc/507926680 http://www.worldcat.org/title/dripping-faucet-as-a-model-cha...
- qaute 8y agoIn fact, the interaction of water movements has good dynamical properties for liquid state machine (reservoir) computing [1] (purely as an interesting demonstration). [1] "Pattern Recognition in a Bucket": https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-39432-7_63 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-39432-...
- Ono-Sendai 8y agoChaos theory predates that, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory