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- Title
Physicists make ripples with their 'magic carpet'.
- Authors
Ball, Philip
- Abstract
The article focuses on the plan by Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and co-workers to create a flying carpet out of ripples. Mahadevan claims that the flying carpet seen in the Walt Disney movie "The Arabian Nights," is possible by studying the aerodynamics of a flexible, rippling sheet moving through a fluid. In order to stay floating in the air, researchers explain that a sheet would need to vibrate at about 10 hertz with an amplitude of about 0.25 millimeters. Creating uplift by making ripples that push against fluids such as air or water is then allegedly considered as the magic way to make a magic carpet.
- Subjects
CAMBRIDGE (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; CARPETS; MAHADEVAN, Lakshminarayanan; CREATIVE ability in technology; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; TEXTILES; INVENTIONS; HARVARD University
- Publication
Nature, 2007, Vol 450, Issue 7173, p1138
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/4501138b