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The Physics of a Good Store Location

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the move-over-feng-shui dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes, "In 'Atomic Physics Predicts Successful Store Location,' LiveScience reports that a French physicist has applied methods used to study atomic interactions for another task: to 'help business owners find the best places to locate their stores.' Pablo Jensen has used his method for the city of Lyon and is now developing software with the local Chamber of Commerce to help future business owners. Read more for additional references and maps of the city of Lyon showing for example the best locations to open a bakery, according to atomic physics." Jensen says that more research is needed to know if this method would work in other cities.

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  1. Roland Piquepaille Junk Science #2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's two Roland junk science articles that have made Slashdot today. I guess since people have stopped clicking links for him, Roland has to up the submission rates to the editors.

    ONCE AGAIN, he is linking to the same zdnet blog that he has the last 4 times. Are you editors all dumb? Can you not figure out it's a ad-trap? I guess since we can't filter him, we have to make posts like this to bitch. Did I mention this is more junk science to ad rape us with? K...

    So yea offtopic me all you want Roland (with your many accounts here), but since (as usual) this is a submission for ad clicks, I just want to say thanks for wasting my eyeballs again. Let's hope people realize this is crap before they post and click for him. Not that his links have anything to do with real science...which makes this whole submission offtopic.

    1. Re:Roland Piquepaille Junk Science #2 by FhnuZoag · · Score: 4, Informative

      While I can make no guesses as to the intent of the submitter, the article in question looks legit - it refers to a real future article in Physics Review E, which is a pretty well recognised peer reviewed journal dealing with Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter physics.

      See http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=PLEEE8&Vo lume=74&Issue=3#MAJOR4

    2. Re:Roland Piquepaille Junk Science #2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Indeed, and thank you for the link to real article, which was NOT linked in the summary. The above poster's issue was with the sites that WERE linked in the summary.

    3. Re:Roland Piquepaille Junk Science #2 by Eternauta3k · · Score: 4, Funny

      Damn! The thousands of slashsdotters who will read the article and give him ad money! Oh wait...

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  2. Interesting by guardiangod · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know people (usually the business types) who can go to an empty store location, look around for 3 minutes and tell you whether the location is good or not.

    Even on the same street, stores on one side may be "live" while stores on the other side may be "dead".

  3. tag: pigpile by Janek+Kozicki · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I saw once this tag used for this submitter. Let's use it from now on! (/me tags pigpile)

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  4. Finally, a practical use for physics. by boyfaceddog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next in the pipeline - physicists work with news editors to produce useless but well-targeted articles.

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  5. How To Block Roland Piquepaille by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    For Firefox users, this Greasemonkey script will hide stories submitted by Roland Piquepaille:
    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5738