EP 45 · 48:12

Turfologists and grass engineering

From The Physics of the World Cup: VAR, Smart Balls, and Soccer Aerodynamics

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48:13has assembled a crack team of turfologists. Yeah. [laughter] Led by John Sorochan of the University of Tennessee and John Rogers of Michigan State University. They're kind of managing this whole thing. >> The two Johns, we got the two Johns. We got the two Johns. >> And and they they do research on turf grass conditions. Um like this this next photo, this is from the University of Tennessee. They've got an indoor turf research building that is showing how like LED lights can be used to grow grass. Like the purple light is something that is the chlorophyll centers of the grass are sensitive to. That's going to cause the grass to grow more. It's kind of crazy that like so much is going into it. Um

48:54Sorochan's team actually invented something called FLEX, which is a

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