Playing With Toys

Simple rules, but they do quite complicated things when you set them going. And so you get the beautiful complexity of our world. Things like dripping er, when you dip a spoon in honey and you watch the honey swirl around in a inna pattern. I had a friend when i was at university who did his entire ph d on the swirling of that honey because not understood. It sounds very trivial, but actually there's a lot of subtlety in there. The thing is, it's all about patterns. Physicists are fundamentally really lazy. Instead of just learning a pile of facts, it's about learning patterns. So once you've seen the pattern in your teacup,