“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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Stated that the observed reversal of energy flux in a two-dimensional turbulent system is a real effect despite initial skepticism

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