“The lava lamp shows the difference between conceptual physics and practical engineering. The principles behind how it works are well known and obvious, but actually getting substances to do what it does is another matter.”
“The psychedelic physics behind the lava lamp’s hypnotic goo,” Esther Inglis-Arkell, iO9
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