A few days ago I came across an article which writes about the first mathematical proof for a key law of turbulence in fluid mechanics. This same article made me recall some ideas that I explored poorly during my early teenager years while reading Chaos: Making a New Science (it certainly is an amazing read, one that I must revisit with a more mature grasp of certain concepts).
As much as I could understand, researchers were able to come up with a proof in which turbulence can be “simplified” into an internal recurrence of patterns until viscosity takes over this property. Although the demonstration is new and uses novel methods to do so, the underlying notion isn’t:
Big whirls have little whirls,That feed on their velocity;And little whirls have lesser whirls,And so on to viscosity.Lewis F. Richardson (1922)
This concept fascinates me for its expansibility to many other fields, specially in a not so strict sense. The creative process and Human wit can be seen through such a scope.
I battle with the deeply rooted within me idea that creativity surges almost as a kind of divine way into the minds of a luck few. But luck can be fostered and is within everyone’s reach. Original ideas are nothing but the capacity to absorb and weave previously conceived ideas. As such, Human genius depends on it.
This blog will be my attempt to recreate this process. A place where I bring problems and ideas that captivate me, always trying – if possible – to simplify them and, by doing so, make simplicity emerge from a sea of turbulence.