“Because it’s still cheating,” Leif said, pointing to a tiny crack in the hub. “The vortex isn’t the enemy anymore. The crack is. I’ve got to go see the janitor.”
The billionaire blinked. “Why not?”
His most famous trick involved a kiddie pool, a leaf blower, and a thousand plastic ping-pong balls. He wanted to understand how seeds disperse in a hurricane. While a visiting mathematician droned on about Navier-Stokes equations, Leif fired up the blower. The balls exploded into a swirling galaxy, and Leif waded into the storm, laughing like a kid in a snow globe. leif ristroph