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from Are Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surprisingly complicated physics of why cats always land on their feet<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Ars chats with physicist Greg Gbur about his book, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by JENNIFER OUELLETTE<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cat being dropped upside down to demonstrate a cat’s movements while falling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Scientists are not immune to the alluringly aloof charms of the domestic cat. Sure,\u00a0Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger<\/a>\u00a0could be accused of animal cruelty for his\u00a0famous thought experiment,<\/a>\u00a0but\u00a0Edwin Hubble<\/a>\u00a0had a\u00a0cat named Copernicus<\/a>, who sprawled across the papers on the astronomer’s desk as he worked, purring contentedly. A Siamese cat named Chester was even listed as co-author (F.D.C. Willard<\/a>) with physicist Jack H. Hetherington on a low-temperature\u00a0physics paper in 1975<\/a>, published in Physical Review Letters. So perhaps it’s not surprising that there is a\u00a0long, rich history<\/a>, spanning some 300 years, of scientists pondering the mystery of how a falling cat somehow always manages to land on their feet, a phenomenon known as “cat-turning.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The falling cat is often sort of a sideline area in research,” physicist and cat lover Greg Gbur told Ars. “Cats have a reputation for being mischievous and well-represented in the history. The cats just sort of pop in where you least expect them. They manage to cause a lot of trouble in the history of science, as well as in my personal science.\u00a0I often say that cats are cleverer than we think, but less clever than they think.”\u00a0A professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Gbur gives a lively, entertaining account of that history in his recent book,\u00a0Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Are Technica The surprisingly complicated physics of why cats always land on their feet Ars chats with physicist Greg Gbur about his book, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics by JENNIFER OUELLETTE\u00a0 Scientists are not immune to the alluringly aloof charms of the domestic cat. Sure,\u00a0Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger\u00a0could be accused of animal cruelty for his\u00a0famous thought experiment,\u00a0but\u00a0Edwin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}