The Scale of It All: Percolation, Phase Transitions, and the Critical Brain Explained

Join us on a journey from a campfire at night in the Arizona desert to the moon, the mind, the electron and beyond. Why does water behave the same at 1 degree and 99 degrees when it is so close to being either solid or gas?What is true about the universe at every level?What if nothing changes the more you zoom in?Are we stuck in a perpetual fractal maze?Topics: Percolation, The Ising Model, Fractals, Renormalisation Invariance, Magnetism. Don't forget to leave us a review! We actively take feedback into future episodes."On this sciencey show, we answer the questions you never thought to ask, did not want to ask and did not ask." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.