From the Butterfly to the Tornado: Predicting Turbulence (VIDEO)

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Can the flap of a butterfly wing in Brazil trigger a tornado in Texas? Chaos theory says that calculating turbulence to find the answer is basically impossible. But physicists at Georgia Tech are making progress in applying math to turbulence and can predict it in intervals.

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Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield

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