News tagged with chaos
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.
The human brain is on the edge of chaos
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Cambridge-based researchers provide new evidence that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos", at a critical transition point between randomness and order. The study, published March 20 in the open-access ...
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" ...
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 ...
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 ...
Switching schools affects student achievement, study
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Picture a kindergarten classroom of 20 students. By the time that class finishes fourth grade, only six students—30 percent—will have been continuously enrolled in the same school.
Children are hurt by chaos at home
Jul 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Historically, U.S. children have experienced chaos for decades due to the nation's high rates of migration, poverty, and maternal and child mortality. But today, chaos in children's lives is largely on the ...
