Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
Jan 1995
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Irish Astronomical Journal, 1995, 22(1), 39
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
Observations of large-scale structure of the Universe have been widely interpreted as revealing a froth-like topology. This is justified in terms of the instability of a uniform distribution of galaxies, leading to the growth of voids which become the cells of the froth. Attention is drawn to the substantial body of recent work on the structure of froths and froth-like structures of materials science and chemistry. A key ingredient of our understanding of these is coarsening, the process of slow evolution of structure due to diffusive processes which lower the surface energy over long time-scales. This appears to be absent from the cosmological debate, despite the relevance of long time-scales. In particular, computer simulations may be misleading if they capture only the early phase of instability and cannot pursue the subsequent coarsening process.
Hutzler Stefan
Weaire Denis
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