In the world of Spinal Tap, drummers could spontaneously combust and the show would go on.
He showed how a diffusing chemical could spontaneously self-organize to give a periodic pattern of peaks and troughs.
Working at the University of Chicago, Purdue and finally Arizona, he took on more complex patterns, showing that rotating spiral waves could spontaneously arise in dishes of chemicals.
Without the water, the fuel rods could spontaneously ignite, releasing as much as five times the amount of harmful radioactivity contained in the reactor's core.
Chen told me that, after he got over the initial jolt, he saw it as "an amazing performance," even though it spoiled the illusion that the Internet could spontaneously produce something pure and beautiful.
In spite of their crazy convictions — that a drunk could spontaneously combust; that a garlic wrap might resurrect a corpse — the family's faith in medicine persists like a hibernating herpes virus.
A short walk off to the east lies King Tut's Wah Wah Hut and the long since closed Barfly, both venues where this band enjoyed sweat-box shows and could spontaneously invite the audience to join them onstage.
During my college days in the late 1970's, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, hundreds of people could spontaneously appear at my house for a party -- with the benefit of no technology more advanced than the waves of attractive force emanating from kegs of free beer.
The system could spontaneously select the most appropriate operation strategy using the developed mathematical model.
In contrast, when equipped with the necessary knowledge, some PTs could spontaneously capture the textbook issue and learn from it.
The multiblock copolymers could spontaneously assemble into more regular spherical core shell nanoscale micelles than the linear triblock copolymer.
