How many holes need to be drilled to collapse a wooden cube?
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—It may sound like a simple riddle, but a team of scientists is intrigued with the answer because it could lead to a better understanding of percolation, the process that occurs when a liquid trickles through small holes in a filter. Percolation models have applications in unexpected areas, such as understanding cancer metastasis and in distributed computing.