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Cracks and Mottled Patterns
Original title: 割れ目、斑模様
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Torahiko Terada was a physicist generally known for his essays, leaving many scientific essays written from an exceptionally broad perspective. The controversy begins when one of his pupils pointed out that giraffe spots closely resemble cracks seen when clay and similar materials dry, proposing the hypothesis that physical phenomena similar to cracking might also be involved in spot formation.
寺田寅彦は、一般にはその随筆で知られた物理学者で、非常に広い視点からの科学エッセーをたくさん書き遺しています。この寺田寅彦の弟子の一人が、キリンの斑模様は粘土などが乾くときに見られる割れ目とよく形が似ていることを指摘し、斑の形成過程にも割れ目と同じような物理現象が関与しているのではないか、という仮説を提唱したところから論争がはじまります。
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