Science truly is all around you, and there’s no better example of that than granular physics! It’s the summertime and people are heading out to the beaches, relaxing, and building sandcastles! You’ve probably noticed that granular materials such as sand and even mixed nuts act in very strange ways! Why? And what’s the perfect way to take these granular materials into our control for us to use in everyday life? What’s the perfect way to build a sandcastle, according to science? In this episode, I will be speaking with Mr. David Meer, a graduate student in Physics at Emory University, about granular physics, his research, and the science of sandcastles.
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Check out the paper Mr. Meer published with the Weeks Lab here! (https://physics.emory.edu/faculty/weeks/lab/papers/meerrcp.pdf)
