Haha, I just wonder whether all the statistically elevated visits and searches from Finland on all those services is just you or also your family.

No, don’t worry – I will not trick the game this way, it’s boring.

And congratulations with your 100th comment!

By the way, you forgot to celebrate one more achievement. If you look at your feedburner logo, it shows 207 readers. You are just five people short of Sheldon’s goal announced at 4:35 of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoxBuaPmmrc

Except that in Sheldon’s case, it should be MySpace. Congratulations anyway.

I enjoy competition of the kind that if it wins, I don’t feel disgusted by the world for a while. So good luck.

I think I understand. As my adorable Englishmen say, there are things which are sportsman-like and things which are not. I’ll try to be sportsman-like. Also, there is no point in competition if it is of no fun. I really hope you are still finding fun in this stuff. And I also hope I did not disgust you too much so far.

Regarding Alexa – agree with you completely. Also, the overall ranking is calculated in a strange way – taking into account that your traffic is about 10 times larger than mine at the present time (yours is slightly more than 200000 now and, I guess, it should be much higher based on the level of your traffic).

Cheers,
Dmitry.

Does the fact that the Reynolds number is non-dimensional mean that there is a ?standard? quantity of about a 100 physical identical subsystems that may stay coherent in a flow?

You mean, existence of the order of 100 vortices near the transition to turbulence (or did I understand your question correctly – not sure what you meant by “non-dimensional”)? I don’t think so – in Taylor-Quette flow, you can easily have 100 or more circular parallel vortices, but the flow will remain laminar. On the other hand, in that particular example, transition to turbulence of course happens when the overall vorticity of the flow gets large enough.

Cheers,
Dmitry.

However, the Alexa method to measure the impact is amusing, especially in your case, because it shows that 84.2% of the visitors are Finnish:

http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....ibrium.net

Well, that’s not a new phenomenon for me. If you look at Google trends, Finland is the second place to search for Motl, too:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=motl,+smolin,+woit

The cities are somewhat more sensible: Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge MA, Prague, Cambridge UK, Helsinki, Boston, Amsterdam…

My thoughts dwelve from time to time on turbulence. Haven’t made up something sensible yet.

Does the fact that the Reynolds number is non-dimensional mean that there is a ’standard’ quantity of about a 100 physical identical subsystems that may stay coherent in a flow? Is it the same for granular flows?