Category: Scientific models
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Storm is coming…
Researchers create a new 3D model that could explain the formation of a hexagon storm on Saturn -- a hurricane about 20,000 miles in diameter. (1) Why is this storm a hexagon? Humans trying to understand in a complex world. The world trying to understand simple humans. Why are they seeing only that storm? Look.…
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Cubes!
The ancient philosopher Plato posited the shapes of the building blocks of the universe. According to him, the earth was formed of cubes. Researchers now find a fundamental truth in that premise. Studying the shapes and fragmentation patterns of a variety of rocks, they found that the average of all their forms is a cube.…
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New force…
Everything in our Universe is held together or pushed apart by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and two nuclear interactions. Physicists now think they've spotted the actions of a fifth physical force emerging from a helium atom. It's not the first time researchers claim to have caught a glimpse of it, either. A few years…
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Cosmic-scale magnetic fields. Scientific models’ dirty little secrets…
While researchers have believed for some time that magnetic fields of femto-Gauss strength extend to the largest scales in the universe -- to scales larger than the largest clusters of galaxies -- it is an unresolved mystery how such magnetic fields can have been created in the early universe. One logical possibility is that the…
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Chaos. Numbers. Simulations.
Digital computers use numbers based on flawed representations of real numbers, which may lead to inaccuracies when simulating the motion of molecules, weather systems and fluids, find scientists. The study, published today in Advanced Theory and Simulations, shows that digital computers cannot reliably reproduce the behaviour of 'chaotic systems' which are widespread. This fundamental limitation…
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