Woden Kusner, University of Georgia, Measuring chirality with the wind
ZoomThe question of measuring "handedness" is of some significance in both mathematics and in the real world. Propellors and screws, proteins and DNA, in fact *almost everything* is chiral. Can we quantify chirality? Or can we perhaps answer the question: "Are your shoes more left-or-right handed than a potato?" We can begin with the hydrodynamic…