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erronis

(17,833 posts)
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 08:27 AM 21 hrs ago

This Strange Motion Keeps Appearing Everywhere - Even in High-Energy Collisions

https://scitechdaily.com/this-strange-motion-keeps-appearing-everywhere-even-in-high-energy-collisions/


High-energy particle collisions exhibit Lévy walks, a movement pattern also found in nature, economics, and climate science. ELTE researchers confirmed this using simulations and data from major particle accelerators. Their findings challenge traditional assumptions and connect nuclear physics to broader scientific disciplines.
Credit: Mate Csanad / ELTE Eötvös Loránd University


Particles in high-energy nuclear collisions move in a way that follows a pattern known as Lévy walks, a motion found across many scientific fields.

Named after mathematician Paul Lévy, Lévy walks (or, in some cases, Lévy flights) describe a type of random movement seen in nature and various scientific processes. This pattern appears in diverse phenomena, from how predators search for food to economic fluctuations, microbiology, chemical reactions, and even climate dynamics.

Lévy Walks in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

In their latest research, Dániel Kincses, Márton Nagy, and Máté Csanád from ELTE’s Department of Atomic Physics and the Astro- and Particle Physics Programme of Excellence (TKP) have demonstrated that the motion of particles in high-energy nuclear collisions follows this same mathematical framework. Their findings emphasize the broad, interdisciplinary significance of Lévy walks in understanding complex systems.

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This Strange Motion Keeps Appearing Everywhere - Even in High-Energy Collisions (Original Post) erronis 21 hrs ago OP
Grabbing straws here, ....Dark matter gravitational spin? chouchou 21 hrs ago #1
Random patterns that are detected in vote results but not seen in the 2024 presidential election. LiberalArkie 21 hrs ago #2
This is rather interesting. I always struggle a bit with stochastics... NNadir 19 hrs ago #3

chouchou

(1,610 posts)
1. Grabbing straws here, ....Dark matter gravitational spin?
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 08:35 AM
21 hrs ago

(Not a true PHD scientist but, I play one on DU)

LiberalArkie

(17,375 posts)
2. Random patterns that are detected in vote results but not seen in the 2024 presidential election.
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 08:42 AM
21 hrs ago

Saw something about that yesterday how the votes seemed to have been digitally smoothed in some of the states.

NNadir

(35,149 posts)
3. This is rather interesting. I always struggle a bit with stochastics...
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 11:23 AM
19 hrs ago

...which represents an impetus to engage them.

I think I'll look a little deeper into this case.

There was a time in my life when I was trying to get my head around the matgematics of Markov chains, but it slipped away, probably as a result of not really getting anywhere.

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