Scientists Built a Ball of Chaos in a Tank to Finally Understand Turbulence
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On the bottom floor of a University of Chicago research laboratory, there is a tank of water that, several times a week, spontaneously contains a ball of pure chaos. The ball is not large, roughly the size of a small watermelon. It hangs, churning, in the middle of the tank without touching the sides, without being stirred by any paddle, and without drifting. Physicists call it The Blob. Creating it requires firing eight precisely choreographed water jets from the corners of the tank simultaneou
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