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super-exotic. Be sure to follow the kite
forces back upwind via the tethers to their anchors, not just the
downwash. That’s highly negative refraction, with phonon particle
creation. A Feynman Diagram applies. Effectively wind and earth are our natural “particle accelerator”, just like cosmic rays serve science, and when we pop up our kites, its as exotic as CERN or maybe more so, because we are discovering a whole new branch of exotic advanced physics and engineering. So what if there is only a handful of kite network theorists to start with. Enjoy the pristine intellectual paradise before the crowd shows up. Dave Santos |
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Any periodic kite rig is an engineered metamaterial under these criteria-
This general kite-domain definition encompasses both trivial cases and exceptions. For example, woven sailcloth is a metamaterial, but membrane sail material is not, simply due to ontological approximation. The distinction of what is ordered (crystalline) and disordered (amorphous) material is often blurry, and the Old Forum has long taken on clarifications. Fun Fact- Metamaterial Theory and 3D Printing originated in Austin, along with kPower. The world has not changed much, yet… Dave Santos |
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KiteMatter, as a metamaterial domain, intends to power civilization, a property not hoped for of “spider webs, jelly fish and trees”. Our “rag and string” kite physics is as wildly exotic as anything else in the universe. Don’t let superficial familiarity introduce bias. The greatest physicists all saw the extraordinary in the ordinary. At least we have identified metamaterial auxetic and negative-refraction effects for KiteMatter, on the Old Forum, no matter who was bored. We are the authorities to work this all out, since no one else is. We can even identify metamaterial properties in standard brush-topology kite farms. Now that biomimetics has informed metamaterial science, its a much richer engineering paradigm. KiteMatter is the metamaterial interpretation of kites and parts either by units or ordered networks. In the loosest case, all kites in the world constitute a metamaterial; more factual than worrying no metamaterial is possible. The frontier is a grand buffet of metamaterial aeroelasticity, social network metamateriality, formal quasi-crystallography, etc… |
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Its Ok for our definitions to differ, and for AWE to advance metamaterial engineering science scope and understanding. Its definitely been a core paradigm to kite network design in the last five years. Science advances by differing rather than deleting. The “Massimo” “definition” was a bit confusing, not just because it was some other Massimo than our Ippolito, but because the definition of metamaterial is in healthy flux. Its now fully accepted to identify and study natural metamaterials, even though the initial definition of engineered metamaterials excluded them. What was also helpful about the Harvard link is that team cites meter-scale in their macro understanding, which is moving toward our kite metamaterial kilometer-scale cells. The transforms of their paper models was cool too, but we are not ready to set up a comparable computational search of kite network space. Dave Santos
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