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Ions mimic the impact of meteorites

Mar 1, 2001

One of the many fascinating aspects of physics is the surprising scaling behaviour between the very small and the very large. Early last century, it became clear that the structure of the solar system and a single atom are both governed by similar attractive interactions. More recently, chaos theory has explained why similar fractal shapes exist in snowflakes, ferns and the shapes of entire mountain ranges.

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