Boltzmann Equation Solved, the New Way

xt writes "The Boltzmann equation is old news. What's news is that the 140-year-old equation has been solved, using mathematical techniques from the fields of partial differential equations and harmonic analysis, some as new as five years old. This solution provides a new understanding of the effects due to grazing collisions, when neighboring molecules just glance off one another rather than collide head on. We may not understand the theory, but we'll sure love the applications!"

Holtzmann equation

[weicco]

For I second I thought the title said "Holtzmann equation solved". That's probably because I was just reading Dune: The Battle of Corrin :)

this sounds like science

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

For I second I thought the title said "Holtzmann equation solved".

I thought it said the Bozeman equation and wondered what kind of math there were doing up there in Montana.

love the application?

[roman_mir]

We may not understand the theory, but we'll sure love the applications [notquitewrong.com]!"

- Yeah, apparently the application suspends notquitewrong.com accounts. I think it's a winner.

Re:Meaning of "Solved"

[Anonymous Coward]

by $RANDOMLUSER

Wow. You just did more to validate your username than BadAnalogyGuy ever has.

But not more than you just did.

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[jd]

I'd have preferred a solution to Block Transfer Computation and the Skasis Paradigm.

Thanks!

[hoytak]

I thought I was math-inclined.

Re:this sounds like science

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Meaning of "Solved"

[haderytn]

after sufficient time evolve into two situations differing by as much as the presence of a tornado derrr derrr yerpppp

Re:Meaning of "Solved"

[Anonymous Coward]

A "blow" up or pole is just one kind of singularity.

Reminds me of a joke:
Q: Why did the Polish Airliner crash?
A: All the poles were in the right half plane.

Re:Meaning of "Solved"

[grep -v '.*' *]

... the flutter of a butterfly's wings is not significant...

It all depends on the size of the butterfly. Haven't you ever heard of Miracle-Gro, or seen the movie: Monsters vs. Aliens??

Re:this sounds like science

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Meaning of "Solved"

[jo_ham]

Ask a chemist.

Well, ask a physical chemist, they're all in the ground floor labs with the heavy equipment pretending to be physicists (while all the physicists are off pretending to be mathematicians).

Mugs

[csrster]

These guys must be crazy. Why waste your career proving the regularity of solutions to the Boltzmann equation when you could get a million bucks [claymath.org] for doing the same for the Navier-Stokes equations.