Smoke Turbulence

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Smoke Turbulence

[Public Domain] 19 Mar 2006 Dylan O'Donnell
CATEGORY : Manmade
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Turbulence is an observable effect even within controlled environments whose nature is unpredictable, leading it to be a prime aspect of chaos theory. The same effect is also visible in water, air and atmospheric matter. Smoke coming from a direct source such as above is laminar for some centimeters, until instability creeps in.

German Physicist, Werner Heisenberg, is alleged to have quipped – ”When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.”

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