Month: February 2018

Bottlenecks. An essay prepared for the Saturday Night Literary Club, Topeka, Kansas, presented on Saturday, 11 October 2008. Submitted by Paul H. Kindling, the Gentleman from Mississippi. The bottleneck represents a paradox. The top of a container narrowed so that it can be closed and spillage prevented. It is descriptive when the cork is also called a “stopper”. The device I used to enhance, by aeration, the taste of the product of fermentation, by the way, a process discovered by the Sumerians about 12,000 years ago, demonstrates the physics of the bottleneck. Where flow through a bottle’s neck is faster the pressure is lower. The italian physicist Giovanni Batista Venturi ( d 1822) described this principle. Sometime around New Years 1930 two different strands of DNA, the building blocks of…