when will water look like water?

[larry89]

when you look at the water outside and not the one on the computer screen.

 

[manowar821]

I think the processing of matter becomes exponentially more difficult as you change from solid to liquid to gas to plasma, in that order.

Solids are easy. Liquids are difficult. Gas won't look right for YEARS.

I agree with gsellis, maybe dx13... lol

 

[pendulum79]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence

Originally posted by: wikipedia
Still, the complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. According to an apocryphal story Werner Heisenberg was asked what he would ask God, given the opportunity. His reply was: "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first."[2] A similar witticism has been attributed to Horace Lamb (who had published a noted text book on Hydrodynamics)?his choice being quantum mechanics (instead of relativity) and turbulence. Lamb was quoted as saying in a speech to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, "I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic."

Maybe when they completely solve the science

 

[Fallen Kell]

Originally posted by: PhatoseAlpha
Wasn't there a news story a while back about a new technique for rending water? A re-doing of the fundamental math which was meant to be easily calculated by a computer, instead of by a person?

Well, it was designed for smoke/air, but it the physics are the same, as it is all still fluid dynamics. The difference is just the density of the fluid.