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Article: Math unites the celestial and the atomic.(NEWS WATCH)(Brief Article)
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- Scientific Computing
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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Scientists from Georgia Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California have uncovered an astonishing parallel between the mathematics of celestial mechanics and the math governing some aspects of atomic physics. For instance, celestial bodies move in paths according to their mutual gravitational attraction, creating tubular "highways" in the space between bodies. On ...