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title: The Physics of Sperm vs. the Physics of Sperm Whales — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/the-physics-of-sperm-vs-the-physics-of-sperm-whales/
date: 2013-09-26
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# The Physics of Sperm vs. the Physics of Sperm Whales

Traveling is extremely arduous for microscopic sperm — think of a human trying to swim in a pool made of…other humans. We can compare the journey of a sperm to that of a sperm whale by calculating the Reynolds number, a prediction of how fluid will behave, often fluctuating due to size of the swimmer. Aatish Bhatia explores the great (albeit tiny) sperm’s journey.