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About the difficulty to understand turbulenceOn his death bed, Heisenberg is reported to havesaid, "When I meet God, I am go<strong>in</strong>g to ask him twoquestions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? Ireally believe he will have an answer for the first."A similar witticism has been attributed to Horace Lamb(who had published a noted text book onHydrodynamics)—his choice be<strong>in</strong>g quantum mechanics(<strong>in</strong>stead of relativity) and turbulence. Lamb was quoted assay<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> a speech to the British Association for theAdvancement of Science <strong>in</strong> 1932, "I am an old man now,and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters onwhich I hope for enlightenment. One is quantumelectrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motionof fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic."

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