I agree this is interesting behavior. I have a suspicion that the shapes that emerge do so because of a very high Q resonance at the particular frequencies that the final waveform is composed of. Trying to figure out which frequencies will have that characteristic would be the difficult part.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Harry Veeder <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 11:48 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:star shaped gravity waves On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Mark Goldes <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/23/star-shaped-gravity-waves-physicists-france_n_2744664.html?ir=Science > > quote: <<"It is generally accepted that the shape of the waves depends on the container shape," said researcher Jean Rajchenbach, a physicist at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France. "The fact that the pattern shape is here recovered independently of the container shape is surprising, mysterious and stimulating. We have no clear explanation.>> This is remarkable. To bad there is no video or pictures showing different sized containers. Harry
