The mystical interlinks: Mechanics, religion or optics?

• 来源期刊: 中国科学:物理学 力学 天文学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2016,（1）
• 页码范围: 104
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.1007/s11433-015-5763-7

摘要

The beauty of this world relies on a fact that there is always this or that mystical interlink among different fields, one concept in a specific realm shines out with great brilliancy in another totally different territory.Catenary is the curve that a free-hanging chain assumes under its own weight, which is thought to be a "true mathematical and mechanical form" in architecture.The catenary shape could also be found in the silk of a spider's web, but no significant phenomena have ever been observed in optics.