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Après le grand bleu, le gros blurp

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Back when he was writing the Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton argued with his pal Chistiaan Hyugens about an interesting question: Would someone swim faster through water or through a thick, viscous goo? Newton bet you’d go slower; Hyugens argued the opposite. Newton decided to put both viewpoints in the Principia, since he couldn’t resolve it. There seemed to be no way to test it: Who was going to go to the trouble of constructing a massive tank and filling it with goo?

Eh bien, il suffisait d’essayer…

Source : Collision Detection.

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