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This paper will take several seemingly disconnected ideas and show how they might be related. In keeping with the spirit of the Monte Verita Colloquium, I have chosen to talk about the way in which I believe the world might work in the hope that it will stimulate my own thinking and that of others. Let me begin with the physical problem which has troubled me for the two past decades: When does a laboratory experiment or computer simulation truly represent an acceptable approximation to a flow of infinite extent?
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George, W.K. (1999). Some thoughts on similarity, the POD, and finite boundaries. In: Gyr, A., Kinzelbach, W., Tsinober, A. (eds) Fundamental Problematic Issues in Turbulence. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8689-5_13
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