How to pronounce “sandpile” in English

about the sandpile quite often.

But if you look at the sandpile experiment more closely, it doesn't just resemble earthquakes.

in intricate ways in the sandpile, it also wouldn't collapse.

- This is the most simple version of a sandpile simulator that you could almost imagine.

He's interested in bigger fish to fry than sandpiles.

And if you look at the power law you get from the sandpile simulation, it closely resembles the power law of the energy released by real earthquakes.

And so when, and the sandpile completely collapses.

Now, if you took that sandpile and put it in a zero gravity state with no pressure, so when the sand hits it,

If you look at the data, there's some even more compelling evidence that links the sandpile simulation to earthquakes.

- That's the really surprising thing, and that's why this little paper with a sandpile was published in the world's top journal

- Now, what's ironic is if you look at real sandpiles, they don't behave like this.

So he doesn't care, the fact that his theory is not relevant to real sandpiles.

Take a grain of sand and drop it on a grid, then keep dropping grains on top until at some point the sandpile gets so steep

- Okay, you said sand, I'm gonna do an experiment on a real sandpile.

at their critical point, but some other systems seem to organize themselves to criticality, like the forest fires or sandpiles or earthquakes.