New Answer to 80-Year-Old Question Makes Computer Modeling 100,000 Times Faster

Neat. Maybe they can use this equation to develop new superconductors?

Too bad we can't use this type of brainpower to figure out how to feed people rather than reinventing technology that already works.Figuring out the unified theory won't feed people who couldn't care less.

"Figuring out the unified theory won't feed people who couldn't care less" - well, if scientists could help reduce the population growth there wouldn't be so damn many mouths that were hungry. The soon to be 7 billion people on this finite planet are in a slow motion self inflicted catastrophe. We will need all the technological help we can muster to deal with those here. Better yet if we can forestall the next one, two, three billion feared coming soon.

Funny how short-sighted and sentimental some people get when relating technology to something that has virtually nothing to do with said technology.

Tangentz007, I'm sure you donated to a charity which fights world hunger all the money you would've spent on luxury goods (a computer, books, cars, icecream, etc).
Forgive me but companies with large budgets and goals that have nothing to do with 'world peace' often donate to quite a few charities/non profits/etc. Unfortunately NASA doesn't have a large budget, but rest assured, it has made plenty contributions to society.

bah.sleep deprivation kills.

Disregard the NASA part, I forgot I just read an article on computer modeling.. everything else stands.

Tangentz007 wrote:

"Figuring out the unified theory won't feed people who couldn't care less."

A question for Tangentz007 and any others with this opinion is: "How do you know it won't?"

Amazing stuff. Shame is most of us will never have a hope in hell of understanding the equations!

getting a kinetic energy functional as a function of charge density (instead of the usual laplacian of wave function) is no more than a fitting process. This wont work for all materials, that is it is no longer "first principles" approach.

Oh wow, Eighty years is an awful long time to wait!

Lou
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maybe they can calculate how much warmer the earth will be with 7billion people vs 6billion. All warm blooded engines running round are bound to heat the planet. ;-)

Dunno.. just call me crazy

I believe what must be the sound thinking in this case is energy savings on any scale and for multiple applications is always a logical endeavor in our power hungry world

It could help with new alloys and nano materials so maybe we'll get that space elevator we need.

"if scientists could help reduce the population growth there wouldn't be so damn many mouths that were hungry. The soon to be 7 billion people on this finite planet are in a slow motion self inflicted catastrophe."

you are a god damn hypocrite if you believe that
you are part of these billion of people, remember that next time you say "scientist need to be helped in finding a way to reduce population growth"

it's not science that will lower that, what could lower this is education, not some pills or whatever treatment

Yeah, Tangentz, things like materials science never benefit normal, hungry people. Lighter, stronger, safer materials for vehicles, transport packaging, and the like would never help reduce cost and energy use for producing food, transporting it to where people need it. or keeping it safe to eat longer. Nope, never happens. Those eggheaded theories never benefit anyone.

Putz!