...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Nicholas Thompson
Sent: July-02-11 10:47 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking
Vladimyr,
I love it! I am going on a trip, so unless my host is particularly
forgiving
: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking
So here's a vortex game for you all.
There is a fleet of sail boats racing from Newport, Rhode Island across the
Atlantic to the mouth of the English Channel. If you go to
http://www.nyyc.org/transatlantic/ and click on [Tracker] you'll get a map
of the North Atlantic
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking
Hello All,
Years ago I ran some funky little tests spinning liquid epoxy on a platter
to attempt perfect parabolas.
The equations required angular velocity and viscosity to get the correct
equation for curvature
Nick, hi,
This time I really, really am under the gun and have no business
answering. But you are not being foolish. You are pushing correctly
on a set of statements that are not a principle. As Steve and Peter
and others have said, the only way to properly handle this is actually
to work out
Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking
Nick, hi,
This time I really, really am under the gun and have no business answering.
But you are not being foolish. You are pushing correctly on a set of
statements that are not a principle. As Steve and Peter and others have
said
Oops! I need to make an emendation:
It was Roger Critchlow who sent all the Dill papers whenever-it-was,
perhaps a year ago.
I remain equally grateful, this time to the right person.
Many thanks,
Eric
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group
On 6/30/11 8:02 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Thanks, Eric, for taking the question seriously. I will study your answer
with care.
Ask a simple question, and waddya get?
Another day older and deeper in (conceptual) debt!
Eric says:
All these
flow problems that we talk about are not
In an offline conversation about my open letter, somebody asked me what
symmetry breaking was; Here was my answer.
Symmetry breaking is Guerin/Kaufman talk. Something like this: Just before
Benard cells form, the fluid is symmetrical horizontally (Kaufman/Guerin
talk for uniform), although
