The difference between physics and mathematics writing

Being a mathematician, I am having difficulty getting my fluid-dynamics papers accepted for publication.   So I have come to the realization that mathematics and physics papers are vastly different.
The methodology in a mathematics paper is at least as important as the result; there are cases where a shorter proof generates almost as much excitement as the original.
It appears that for physicists, the result is paramount and the methodology is mainly for vetting the results.  To develop an elegant theory which provides results which are already known is of no interest; there must be some lack or deficiency in a known result for the physicist to read past the abstract.  And that lack or deficiency must be stated up front; one of my papers was rejected because it didn't tell a story.
Mathematicians tend to read a paper from start to finish and are delighted by footnotes with unexpected connections to other fields.  The Journal of Fluid Mechanics nearly forbids footnotes in their instructions for authors.
There are variations among physics journals as well.  For journals with an engineering bent, stating that a coefficient of 0.450 is actually sqrt(2)/pi is probably best left out.

The Physics of Marbling

Last week I spoke on The Physics of Marbling at the Form in art, toys and games workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in the University of Cambridge!

I am the one in the bright blue jacket.

The four day workshop had many fascinating presentations on a wide variety of topics.  Videos for most of the talks are available.

Marbling the Torus

I have cleaned up the math on Marbling the Torus and changed my scripts to oversample the images, resulting in less graininess.

Biological Space-Filling Curves

My (Aubrey Jaffer) work on multidimensional space-filling curves is acknowledged in October 9th Science's cover article: "Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome".
See supplemental-material link.