The explanation is not wrong per se, but it's just too long winded in getting to the point, and misses the perspective that rheologist, geologists,evolutionary biologists, cosmologists and other have: that the time scale of a human being is too short of a time interval to be an appropriate unit for observing the natural world.
Everything flows, but only the macromolecules are worth the time.
Monday, July 18, 2011
How to Not Explain the Deborah Number
While I normally find XKCD to be entertaining, I thought today's cartoon was a horrible way to explain the Deborah Number:
The explanation is not wrong per se, but it's just too long winded in getting to the point, and misses the perspective that rheologist, geologists,evolutionary biologists, cosmologists and other have: that the time scale of a human being is too short of a time interval to be an appropriate unit for observing the natural world.
The explanation is not wrong per se, but it's just too long winded in getting to the point, and misses the perspective that rheologist, geologists,evolutionary biologists, cosmologists and other have: that the time scale of a human being is too short of a time interval to be an appropriate unit for observing the natural world.
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And the mountains flowed before the
time vulture....
LOL!
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