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Physicists Create Quasicrystalline Patterns in Water Waves
Original: Quasicrystalline Water Waves
Researchers with the American Physical Society report generating water waves that arrange themselves into quasicrystalline patterns — ordered structures that never repeat, previously seen mainly in certain alloys and crystals. The work extends quasicrystal physics to fluid dynamics, offering a new way to study these unusual symmetries in a tabletop experiment. Physicists are highlighting it as a striking demonstration of exotic order in an everyday medium.
Why now: A physics demonstration extends quasicrystals into water waves, which is novel and visually striking.
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- Quasicrystalline Water Waves · American Physical Society
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