At two Indian Institutes of Technology, researchers have peered into one of physics' most enduring mysteries — how turbulence transforms ordered motion into heat — by tracking billions of charged dust particles through supercomputer simulations. Working with dusty plasma, a strange state of matter found in Saturn's rings and fusion reactors alike, the team revealed that microscopic electrical forces between particles govern the macroscopic chaos we call turbulence. Their findings suggest that matter, even in its most violent states, follows patterns that bridge the infinitely small and the cos