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Waiter, there's a carpet in my coffee

From the ArXiv blog: researchers have discovered a new fractal, closely matching a Sierpinski Carpet, in the boundary layer dynamics of coffee in milk. I don’t know how Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities work, but I do find occasional cool things in my coffee:
Coffee cracks Mocha tree

Author TomPosted on September 25, 2008Categories Aside, NewsTags coffee, fractal, Sierpinski carpetLeave a comment on Waiter, there's a carpet in my coffee

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