Describing The Web With Physics

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.

Comments

hmm

[isudoru]

i'm still 15, but i got this book called The dancing Wu Li masters which is about physics without the math. they try to explain physics in plain language as Einstein said it could be done. This was really an interesting cookie to go along with my book. thanks

Physics can EASILY kill the web

[sharkey]

Just get my high school Physics teacher to lecture the Internet admins when they shut down the Web for cleaning this New Year's. They'll sleep forever, long after the Internet has been replaced.

Hi to Mr. Konkle! Still doing your grade book in pencil? Physics might have been Phun, but you certainly killed that, didn't you?

Re:1,000,000,000 urls

[demaria]

Well if I am not mistaken, the AP style guide says "Internet" when talking about the Internet, internet in the general or otherwise sense.

www.m-w.com defines "Internet" as a noun.