DIPC Colloquium: Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere

DIPC Seminars

Speaker

Michael Berry, University of Bristol, UK

When

2018/10/05
19:30

Place

Donostia International Physics Center

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In some of the world's rivers, an incoming high tide can arrive as a smooth jump decorated by undulations, or as a breaking wave. The river reverses direction and flows upstream. Understanding tidal bores involves * analogies with tsunamis, rainbows, horizons in relativity, and ideas from quantum physics; * the concept of a 'minimal model' in mathematical explanation; * different ways in which different cultures describe the same thing; * the first unification in fundamental physics.