FREAKY TIMES TEN THOUSAND: What do you get when you mix big brains at Stanford University and the University of Delaware? You end up with a mathematical concept so bizarre it uses10 side-by-side chalkboards – and covers the horizon of the entire Eastern Seaboard.
This is gonna take some explaining – and it will tax the windmills of the mind.
Collaborating scientists at two schools have come up with a nearly inexplicable storm-ameliorating, weather-fighting concept.
I first read about it in a Wall Street Journal article written by Peter S. Green, titled “Hurricanes vs. Turbines.”
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