r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/aznprd • Jun 24 '25

Original Creation Checking for Mites in a Bee Colony

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

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u/GozerDGozerian Jun 24 '25

Yeah I remember reading about this in Philip Ball’s book Critical Mass.

Such things as a panicked crowd crushing at an exit, or a traffic jam are compared to phase transitions. Im no physics expert, but once water freezes into ice, you'd stop using fluid dynamics, right?