Atul Vinayak

Atul Vinayak

@a.tulv.in

a.tulv.in Vancouver, BC

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Atul Vinayak
@a.tulv.in

A single Schlieren-photograph frame of the snapping claw of Alpheus randalli specimen "Sigma-7," housed in tank 3B of the Caltech Hopf Bifurcation Acoustics Lab, captured at 11:42:09.0000004 on 4 June 2018

Atul Vinayak
@a.tulv.in

the 17-picosecond instant the cavitation bubble at the claw's tip reaches 4,400 Kelvin, briefly burning hotter than the photosphere of the sun, inside a 4-centimeter invertebrate whose body remains at 23°C and which has no nervous architecture capable of registering that it has just authored a star.