Kyle Harrison
research-paper
Birds on a Wire
TL;DR — A statistical-physics paper asking what gaps form when birds land one by one on a wire and each keeps its distance. Posted twice in the thread.
How much weight it carries: A real arXiv physics paper on a whimsical question; the math is serious.
Where this came from
- Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — routing record: The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023)
Recommended 2 separate times in the thread.
18 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.