Darren New wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What do you think drives the randomness of lava lamps? Pixies?
>>>
>>
>> Fluid Dynamics? Heat?
> 
> And ... those in turn are caused by ... ?
> 

electron motion converted to heat by squeezing them through a thin 
filament of tungsten? Molecules of water and wax interacting with each 
other once the wax is liquid.

> Granted, individual atom decay is less likely to exhibit statistical 
> groupings. And you rarely have your radioactive source get too cold to 
> be random. :-)
> 

Right, and occasionally my lava lamp acts completely non-random. It 
forms a single blob that just hangs there.

-- 
~Mike

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