Write For Us

The Coastline Paradox Has Been Finally Explained

E-Commerce Solutions SEO Solutions Marketing Solutions
146 Views

  • Thanks! Share it with your friends!

    You disliked this video. Thanks for the feedback!

AVA
Published
Believe it or not, in our age of advanced science, it’s still impossible to measure the coastline with 100 % accuracy. It is one of those global issues that remain unsolved.
According to one study by Congressional Research Institute, the US coastline is 12,383 miles long. Another study by the same organization gives us a different number – 29,093 miles. The CIA claims the correct number is 18,924 miles. Finally, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration came up with a result of 95,471 miles. Why is it so?
To measure the indirect UK coastline, you could use 50 miles as a unit, or you could go with 25, and get two very different answers. If we take larger units, we’ll get 35 of them – and around 1739 miles. If we go with units of 25 miles, there will be 85 of them, and the result will be 2112 miles. The more we zoom in, the larger that number becomes.
The first scientist to have discovered the paradox was Lewis Fry Richardson. When he tried to find out if the length of the common border can somehow affect the probability of two countries going to war in 1951, he noticed something pretty weird. Different neighboring countries had different data on how long their borders were. Spain and Portugal claimed that their mutual border was 613 and 754 miles long correspondingly.

Music:
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

TIMESTAMPS
The coastline of America 0:58
How to measure the coastline of a country? 2:12
The meaning of Coastline Paradox explained 3:36
Who discovered the Coastline Paradox? 5:25
So, is it possible to measure a coastline? 6:11
The “Koch Snowflake” 7:18

SUMMARY
-Even if we take only the most official of official resources, there won’t be just one answer to how long the US coastline is.
-To measure the indirect coastline, you could use 50 miles as a unit, or you could go with 25, and get two very different answers.
-The more you zoom in and the smaller measurement unit you take, the larger the number that you get will become when trying to measure a coastline.
-Lewis Fry Richardson was the first to have discovered the paradox.
-It is possible, in theory, but if you do so, you’ll get a result close to infinity, or millions and millions of miles. Any country is a pretty defined space, so that would make no sense.
-We can zoom in further and further adding more and more smaller triangles and summing up the lengths to the perimeter to measure the snowflake, but it would make no sense.

Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our Social Media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightgram/

5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://www.goo.gl/8JVmuC

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For more videos and articles visit:
http://www.brightside.me/
Category
Tips & Tricks
Be the first to comment