When will your elevator arrive? (VIDEO)

Santa Fe Institute

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The human world is, increasingly, an urban one -- and that means elevators. Two physicists saw this as an opportunity to explore the factors that determine elevator transport capabilities in their new paper in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics.

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Animation: Michael Garfield/Santa Fe Institute

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