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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
What's the Relationship Between the Two?
A critical point is where the flow of fluid in a pipe could stay laminor or it could become turbulent. The rate at which prey is being eaten, thoug t the rate at which the sheep being eaten by the wolves, is such that both populations stay exactly the same. For example, think n about this way. I've got some wolves. They can eat at a certain rate. They're eating, they're eating sheep. Let's suppose the sheep are like rabbits, and the tay reproduce, you know, every hundred years a not like rabbits, the oppositey, they reproduce every hundred years. And so there's now coexistence with the two things.
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