We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture

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dd8601fn•about 1 hour ago

This looks like silly putty behavior.

jdlshore•10 minutes ago

Oobleck (corn starch and water) will do this too. But presumably they already knew that. The article describes it as being known to happen in “complex fluids,” but that it was news that it happens in “simple fluids.” Presumably silly putty and oobleck are “complex fluids?”

nycdweller349•about 1 hour ago

Someone tell me the industries that are going to benefit the most from this in the short and long term and what I can expect to see in the next 30 years as a result of this discovery.

gmueckl•about 1 hour ago

Maybe it will not have any mmediate application. But guess what? It's still cool! And that can be its very own reward if you let it.

Oh, btw: electricity was a novelty toy for several long decades with no major practical applications. But that eventually changed because people kept researching it. And it changed the world.

helpfulclippy•about 1 hour ago

That sounds like a lot of work for someone to go do for a quanta article about something neat a researcher noticed.

calrt•about 1 hour ago

I worry that this sort of request will become the norm in the age of AI where people forget that people aren’t there to serve them.

lostlogin•about 1 hour ago

You made an account to say that?

lstodd•15 minutes ago

he had his llm to make an account to post this.

We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture

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