Moshers, Heavy Metal And Emergent Behavior

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According to TechnologyReview.com, a team of researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca has found that the speed distribution of moshers at heavy metal concerts — where fans run together with physical abandon, bouncing off one another with arms flaying and legs kicking — closely matches that of molecules in a 2D gas at equilibrium.

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