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A Physicist Solves the City
Feb. 20th, 2011 09:35 pmA Physicist Solves the City
By JONAH LEHRER
( ...they concluded that cities looked a lot like elephants... )
“When we started living in cities, we did something that had never happened before in the history of life,” West says. “We broke away from the equations of biology, all of which are sublinear. Every other creature gets slower as it gets bigger. That’s why the elephant plods along. But in cities, the opposite happens. As cities get bigger, everything starts accelerating. There is no equivalent for this in nature. It would be like finding an elephant that’s proportionally faster than a mouse.”
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PS. А теперь экстраполируем это на интернет...
PPS. Equivalent in nature у этого, кстати, есть - муравьи.
By JONAH LEHRER
( ...they concluded that cities looked a lot like elephants... )
“When we started living in cities, we did something that had never happened before in the history of life,” West says. “We broke away from the equations of biology, all of which are sublinear. Every other creature gets slower as it gets bigger. That’s why the elephant plods along. But in cities, the opposite happens. As cities get bigger, everything starts accelerating. There is no equivalent for this in nature. It would be like finding an elephant that’s proportionally faster than a mouse.”
( Read more... )
PS. А теперь экстраполируем это на интернет...
PPS. Equivalent in nature у этого, кстати, есть - муравьи.