Humans vs. Bernoulli
Jan. 9th, 2013 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyI was thinking about traffic. I would say I was bored, but that wasn't the case. I was just awake.
When a two or three lane road is compressed down into a one lane road due to construction or design, the speed of the traffic flow from the cars slows down and creates increased pressure at the "bottleneck."
Bernoulli's principle, on the other hand, shows that when dealing with the dynamics of fluid motion, the flow will speed up and the pressure will decrease, like when dealing with an airfoil, piping, or a water hose (which is simply another form of piping).
What is it about a system comprised of intelligent entities that causes human flow to slow down at a bottleneck instead of speed up?
When a two or three lane road is compressed down into a one lane road due to construction or design, the speed of the traffic flow from the cars slows down and creates increased pressure at the "bottleneck."
Bernoulli's principle, on the other hand, shows that when dealing with the dynamics of fluid motion, the flow will speed up and the pressure will decrease, like when dealing with an airfoil, piping, or a water hose (which is simply another form of piping).
What is it about a system comprised of intelligent entities that causes human flow to slow down at a bottleneck instead of speed up?
