Another major scientific breakthrough!

[HoreTore]

2012 shapes up to be a good year for science. First the Higgs-Boson was found, now we have a solution to the abc-conjucture.

Do I understand any of it? Heck no! I do recognize some of its implications though, like giving solutions to certain Diophantic problems. Exciting nonetheless! I'm having a meeting with my old maths professor in October, I'll try to harass him for some answers... In the meantime, does anyone here understand some of it?

[SoFarSoGood]

Not 'science' as such but number theory. Nor is the Higgs - Boson 'found'. It is probable.

[Fragony]

Am I stupid because I really don't understand that or just stupid

[HoreTore]

Am I stupid because I really don't understand that or just stupid

This is the absolute top of mathematics Frags, I don't understand a word of it. Well, I can recognize the symbols and such, but I'm completely clueless as to what he's saying. Kinda like reading dutch: I understand the letters and can spot one or two words, but I have no chance to udnderstand what it means.

I read an article about it which was enlightening, but it was in Norwegian. I may be able to find one in english...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Am I stupid because I really don't understand that or just stupid

Here is a gentle introduction to the subject:
http://www.ega-math.narod.ru/Liv/Goldfeld.htm

[Moros]

Also other major scientific news:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1884818.html

IBM was able to photograph bounds within a molecule, continuing and improving on their older pictures of molecules.

[HoreTore]

Also other major scientific news:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1884818.html

IBM was able to photograph bounds within a molecule, continuing and improving on their older pictures of molecules.

If this had been discovered by CERN, I'm sure a number of clueless politicians would've called for an end to such "useless research". It's a lot harder to call the research a waste of money when it's done by a commercial company though.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Not 'science' as such but number theory.

Very much science, then.

Anyway if the proof stacks up this would indeed signal party time.

[Major Robert Dump]

I thought this would be about the new monkey they found, the one who looks like Gene Wilder. I love Willy Wonka