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Balloon bursts give clue to fast cracks
A casual observation about the edges of popped balloons may have led researchers to previously unknown features of the most common and least understood types of fractures.
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Shame on you. This article on the importance of fractals in earth sciences never mentioned the “father” of fractals, the Polish-French scientist Benoit Mandelbrot, nor Christopher Scholz, the solid-earth scientist of Columbia University who first recognized the importance of Mandelbrot’s mathematical genius. Eugene C. BoveeLawrence, Kan.
- Earth
It’s a Rough World
Scientists are using fractals, mathematical forms that can describe objects with fractional dimensions, to model phenomena such as wildfire propagation and the spread of toxic fluids through rocks and soil.
