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[As shown in the epigraph above, in 1834, the scottish engineer John Scott Russell, when attempting to optimize the design of boats for the Union Canal, noted a particular phenomena: a water “wave of translation” which propagated along the channel without change of form, nor velocity. These “waves of translation” quickly became an object of obsession not just for Russell, but for several physicists in different areas such as fluid dynamics (Kortweg-deVries equation), condensed matter (Gross-Pitaevskii equation), cosmology (as will be seen in the next paragraph).]
Published: Jan 14, 2023
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