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The New Laws of Explosive Networks

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The Particle Fluid Question

In 1879 Maxwell attempted to describe the turning veins of the Crookes radiometer by modeling the thin air inside the vacuum chamber as a fluid. Slimrod hopes that employing the Kordovich equations rather than Navier-Stokes will be useful for modeling near-vacuum gases.

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