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The transmission of force through granular matter such as sand is a crucial consideration in certain applications. The behaviour observed depends on the particle interactions as well as on the length scale involved.

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Figure 1: Three modes of information propagation in two dimensions.

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Luding, S. Information propagation. Nature 435, 159–160 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/435159a

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