News tagged with chaos theory
Quantum Chaos Unveiled?
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory - which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics - and the modern ...
Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A water drop placed on a soap film that vibrates up and down may bounce as if on a trampoline -- but it's much more than that, according to MIT mathematicians who say the "fluid trampoline" ...
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Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics.
Mathematics simplifies sleep monitoring
May 07, 2008 |
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A UQ researcher has created a new way to measure breathing patterns in sleeping infants which may also work for adults.
Making waves: Mathematicians crack quantum chaos conjecture
Oct 10, 2008 |
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The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. Their work, based in the pure mathematics area of number ...
Astronomical and mathematical physics awards go to chaos and X-ray leaders
Feb 01, 2008 |
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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announces the winners of the 2008 Dannie Heineman Prizes for Astrophysics and for Mathematical Physics. The mathematical physics prize goes to Mitchell Feigenbaum of Rockefeller University ...
Pinning down the butterfly's wings
Jun 01, 2007 |
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A Belgian mathematician hopes to use the science of chaos, the butterfly effect and strange attractors to help build a complete model of climate and resources that will lead to a new approach to sustainable development.
MIT prof Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dies at 90
Apr 16, 2008 |
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Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorologist who tried to explain why it is so hard to make good weather forecasts and wound up unleashing a scientific revolution called chaos theory, died April 16 of cancer at his ...
What happens when you pop a quantum balloon?
Apr 17, 2008 |
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When a tiny, quantum-scale, hypothetical balloon is popped in a vacuum, do the particles inside spread out all over the place as predicted by classical mechanics?
Earth-Venus smash-up possible in 3.5 billion years: study
Jun 10, 2009 |
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A force known as orbital chaos may cause our Solar System to go haywire, leading to possible collision between Earth and Venus or Mars, according to a study released Wednesday.
New physics theory prize names first recipient
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Pioneering theorist and Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson has been named the first recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Anderson will receive a $10,000 honorarium ...
Dream of quantum computing closer to reality as mathematicians chase key breakthrough
Dec 22, 2008 |
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The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, has come closer following recent progress with some of the remaining underlying ...
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