Mathematically, scientists can create rogue waves, but until now they were unable to actually produce one. The physics just seemed too unlikely in the real world. “It is as if a roomful of people whispering produced the sound of an explosion,” said Alex Kasman, a soliton scientist at the College of Charleston who wasn’t involved in the Nature Physics study.
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