Do lava lamps and actual lava share similar characteristics?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 18:07
in Psychology & Sociology
When Imre Jánosi's teenage daughter asked him how her new lava lamp worked, she probably expected a quick explanation. But her innocent question sent Jánosi, a physicist at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest, on an experimental quest to plumb the physics of the popular novelty toy.