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Go with the flow

Traditional devices for measuring turbulence have been unable to keep up with the latest developments in theory. But detectors derived from high-energy physics may narrow the gap between experiment and theory.

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Figure 1: The lagrangian evolution of a group of three tracer particles.

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Procaccia, I. Go with the flow. Nature 409, 993–995 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35059196

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