DIPC Colloquium: Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere
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DIPC Colloquium: Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere
DIPC Seminars
- Speaker
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Michael Berry, University of Bristol, UK
- When
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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.