Additional video on how the experiment works at: https://youtu.be/mf_143gkKSQ More links and info below â â â This video features Professor Mike Merrifield from the University of Nottingham...
========== I thought I would talk about the very strange cloud formation in this rather beautiful picturetaken on the Norfolk coast a week or so back.Their technical name amongst cloud people is they call fluctus clouds.Amongst physicists, they're called Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds and the reason why they called Kelvin-Helmholtz cloudsis they illustrate a phenomenon called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability -discovered by Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz in the mid 19th century.[Brady]: I'm going to call them hook clouds.
[Professor Merrifield]: Okay, cool.Kind of like breaking waves, maybe?I mean, you're right, they tilt over. It turns out it's a very common phenomenon.I mean you see it in clouds from time to time,but actually it&...
