Theorists solve a long-standing fundamental problem on atoms

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 05:01 in Physics & Chemistry

Trying to understand a system of atoms is like herding gnats -- the individual atoms are never at rest and are constantly moving and interacting. When it comes to trying to model the properties and behavior of these kinds of systems, scientists use two fundamentally different pictures of reality, one of which is called 'statistical' and the other 'dynamical.'

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