Remember those amazing starling flocks over the West Pier?

Buzzer

Languidly Clinical

Oct 1, 2006

26,121

• Jul 28, 2014

• #1

This is something to pass the time before the season starts. Ever wondered why the starlings moved in particular patterns? Scientists think that they exhibit the same behaviour as liquid helium particles.

http://news.sciencemag.org/math/2014/07/how-bird-flocks-are-liquid-helium

I remember reading something slightly related about fractal behaviour and how mathematical models in crowd behaviour can be applied to stock market prices. Maybe the world isn't quite as random as we think. Science really is incredible, I love this sort of stuff.

 

8ace

Banned

Jul 21, 2003

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Brighton

• Jul 28, 2014

• #2

I remember there used to be much bigger murmurations down by the Old Steine before the Big Storm.

 

Notters

Well-known member

Oct 20, 2003

24,869

Guiseley

• Jul 28, 2014

• #3

They all seem to have moved underneath Wetherspoons down the Marina now.