By Louis A. Bloomfield, Ph.D. Professor Physics, University of Virginia The ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is primarily a physics problem and, as such, should be susceptible to a physics solution. But two of the simplest physics solutions — sealing the top of the well with the blowout preventer’s hydraulic valves and […]
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