Running on cornflour

Martin van Hecke ()
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Martin van Hecke: Martin van Hecke is in the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Leiden University, PO Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.

Nature, 2012, vol. 487, issue 7406, 174-175

Abstract: You can run across a swimming pool filled with a mixture of cornflour and water, but you sink if you stand still. Conventional understanding of this phenomenon is now being turned on its head. See Letter p.205

Date: 2012
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