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Boltzmann Equation Solved, the New Way

Posted by kdawson on from the s-equals-k-log-w dept.

xt writes "The Boltzmann equation is old news. What's news is that the 140-year-old equation has been solved, using mathematical techniques from the fields of partial differential equations and harmonic analysis, some as new as five years old. This solution provides a new understanding of the effects due to grazing collisions, when neighboring molecules just glance off one another rather than collide head on. We may not understand the theory, but we'll sure love the applications!"

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  1. Holtzmann equation by weicco · · Score: 5, Funny

    For I second I thought the title said "Holtzmann equation solved". That's probably because I was just reading Dune: The Battle of Corrin :)

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    1. Re:Holtzmann equation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      For I second I thought the title said "Holtzmann equation solved".

      I thought it said the Bozeman equation and wondered what kind of math there were doing up there in Montana.

    2. Re:Holtzmann equation by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'd have preferred a solution to Block Transfer Computation and the Skasis Paradigm.

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  2. this sounds like science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    please post more stories about how much we hate apple and love flash.

    1. Re:this sounds like science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      please post more stories about how much we hate apple and love flash.

      FUCK YOU! We LOVE Apple and HATE Flash!

    2. Re:this sounds like science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      please post more stories about how much we hate apple and love flash.

      FUCK YOU! We LOVE Apple and HATE Flash!

      FUCK YOU ALL! We LOVE CP/M and HATE GUIs!

  3. love the application? by roman_mir · · Score: 3, Funny

    We may not understand the theory, but we'll sure love the applications!"

    - Yeah, apparently the application suspends notquitewrong.com accounts. I think it's a winner.

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  4. Re:Meaning of "Solved" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    by $RANDOMLUSER

    Wow. You just did more to validate your username than BadAnalogyGuy ever has.

    But not more than you just did.

  5. Thanks! by hoytak · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought I was math-inclined.

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  6. Re:Meaning of "Solved" by haderytn · · Score: 2, Funny

    after sufficient time evolve into two situations differing by as much as the presence of a tornado derrr derrr yerpppp

  7. Re:Meaning of "Solved" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A "blow" up or pole is just one kind of singularity.

    Reminds me of a joke:
    Q: Why did the Polish Airliner crash?
    A: All the poles were in the right half plane.

  8. Re:Meaning of "Solved" by grep+-v+'.*'+* · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... the flutter of a butterfly's wings is not significant...

    It all depends on the size of the butterfly. Haven't you ever heard of Miracle-Gro, or seen the movie: Monsters vs. Aliens??

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  9. Re:Meaning of "Solved" by jo_ham · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ask a chemist.

    Well, ask a physical chemist, they're all in the ground floor labs with the heavy equipment pretending to be physicists (while all the physicists are off pretending to be mathematicians).

  10. Mugs by csrster · · Score: 2, Funny

    These guys must be crazy. Why waste your career proving the regularity of solutions to the Boltzmann equation when you could get a million bucks for doing the same for the Navier-Stokes equations.