“He kept saying that too. He's like, this is a really weird result. I don't trust it. But they kept working and they built this system…”
The Quanta Podcast · Sea Monkeys, Jupiter, and the Mystery of Turbulence
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What was described
Stated that the observed reversal of energy flux in a two-dimensional turbulent system is a real effect despite initial skepticism
Said nearby on the same subject
“I have a lot of ideas, but I hold myself back to assess those ideas first before I bring them to my team… otherwise they're constantly living in a state of flux and a state of change.”
“They built this system with all these little rods in the array… it’s a matter of the relative geometry between how they're agitating the surface and the turbulence built into the system.”