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Describing The Web With Physics

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-large-enough-lever-mated-to-a-spring dept.

Fungii writes: "There is a fascinating article over on physicsweb.com about 'The physics of the Web.' It gets a little technical, but it is a really interesting subject, and is well worth a read." And if you missed it a few months ago, the IBM study describing "the bow tie theory" (and a surprisingly disconnected Web) makes a good companion piece. One odd note is the reseachers' claim that the Web contains "nearly a billion documents," when one search engine alone claims to index more than a third beyond that, but I guess new and duplicate documents will always make such figures suspect.

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  1. 99 bottle of beer by xixax · · Score: 3, Funny

    100 million URLs on the net, 100 million URLs
    Take one down, pass worms around,
    99 million URLs on the net...

    Xix.

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  2. hmmm by sewagemaster · · Score: 3, Funny
    it's all about the right hand law (with F-normal force represented by the middle finger), friction, and porn!!

    *grin*

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