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Originally Posted by Phantasm
Turbulence fits my arguments of "not knowing everything" as well. We know it exists, we can measure it, we can enjoy its effects recreationally (waterslides!), and we can kinda figure out how to counteract it, but we don't really know what it is and why it happens.
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It comes up a lot in sail mechanics, and it makes the performance of sailboats a long way from being neatly mathematically predictable, beyond some fairly basic points such as the Froude number.