The Backyard “Silly Sprinkler” That Cracked One of Physics’ Biggest Puzzles

Quirky backyard sprinklers helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery about how flowing water makes objects spin.
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Nature Needs Mathematics for Its Rigorous Description But is Computation at the Root of Nature

Feynman's made a lecture and book that mathematics is needed to describe nature. It (in The Relation of Mathematics to ...

Scientists used children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve a physics problem Richard Feynman could not; the reverse version spins 50 times slower

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how reverse sprinklers rotate. The key lies in how water momentum collides inside the ...
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Kelvin's Baltimore lectures and modern theoretical physics : historical and philosophical perspectives

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