Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 26, 2021]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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What Is Caustic?
E caustic is because that comes from the latin word, i guess, which means to set things on fire. One of the places where you see these caustics is in am a. A is when when you have a parallel light and am you m a, you end up with something like a coffee cup that's circular. And circular a circles um just or cylindrical. Am that doesn't focus things at a point. Instead, it focuses things on this so called caustic m that is this, this funny shape with a casp in it. It concentrates things on a caustic - for example, if you look at the bottom of a swimming
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