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Boltzmann Equation Solved, the New Way
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!"
For I second I thought the title said "Holtzmann equation solved". That's probably because I was just reading Dune: The Battle of Corrin :)
You don't know what you don't know.
please post more stories about how much we hate apple and love flash.
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.
You can't handle the truth.
I thought I was math-inclined.
Does having a witty signature really indicate normality?
after sufficient time evolve into two situations differing by as much as the presence of a tornado derrr derrr yerpppp
... 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??
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
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).
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.