https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXrS5HJwMBYFluid mechanics or dynamics contains many less well known phenomena, which have been initially explored but not applied .
Surface Tension is one of those boundaries we know a lot about mathematically and physically but we have only used in a few applications.
The key point Chillhelmer is to revise your notions of matter, and I recommend adopting a fluid dynamic paradigm to do so. Then you can make the intuitive leap that all surfaces are active .
The viscosity and the momentum of that activity is captured in the Rayleigh number. This provides a scaled way of understanding fluid behaviours. By that I mean the same behaviours at different scales appear very different!
Thus a surface of a solid appears rigid, but in fact it is not. It has a very high viscosity but is still active . Glass for example flows very slowly.
The forces and energies in these boundary surfaces are phenomenal. It is only now we are beginning to find out how to tap into them.
Where fractals come into the picture is precisely in relation to the Rayleigh number. This is a scale free device that allows us to apply iteratively certain forms to all scales just as in a fractal . We then calculate the physical measurement to be expected in the predicted behaviour by truncating the iteration appropriately.
Wada basins,Van De Wahl forces etc all can be modelled by a fractal topology. The Casmir forces fall into this category also.essentially "magnetic" behaviours are a way of describing these fractal topologies as they behave.
I am not now claiming space is fractal, not any more. Our measurement topologies are best applied fractally to space-like objects and regions.
May 06, 2011, 11:12:12 AM
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