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DreamGypsy

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4. Hmmm. Maybe Douglas Adams was wrong...

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue May 27, 2014, 05:43 PM

May 2014

and the real answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 22.7.

The nesting-doll feature — called discrete scale invariance — arose from a symmetry in the equation describing the forces between three particles. If the particles satisfied the equation when spaced a certain distance apart, then the same particles spaced 22.7 times farther apart were also a solution. This number, called a “scaling factor,” emerged from the mathematics as inexplicably as pi.

10-billionths of a degree above absolute zero - that's pretty cool!

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Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes [View all] n2doc May 2014 OP

Sounds neat, but I don't understand any of it. broiles May 2014 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague May 2014 #2

Borromean rings, for the spatially impaired, like me ... GeorgeGist May 2014 #3

Hmmm. Maybe Douglas Adams was wrong... DreamGypsy May 2014 #4

That's the good kind of fuzzy math. tridim May 2014 #5

The old nesting doll theory... longship May 2014 #6

The Ramans do everything in threes. Xipe Totec May 2014 #7

I guess Lee Mercer was right! nt Javaman May 2014 #8