On 25 Jul 2006 03:16:40 -0700, "nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Quote from article:
>
>"These mergers are by far the most powerful events occurring in the
>universe, with each one generating more energy than all of the stars in
>the universe combined," said Joan Centrella, head of the Gravitational
>Astrophysics Laboratory at Goddard. "
>
>Joan Centrella must be from the PR division, not a scientist. She must
>mean "more power" not "more energy" which makes no sense. This was a
>difficult computation because it involves solving coupled, nonlinear
>differential equations in four independent variables (3 space plus one
>time). In this respect it's similar to 3D time-dependent fluid
>mechanics, which is also very challenging from a computational
>standpoint.
I don't see "power" in E=mc^2 ;-)
>I can't imagine that anyone would ever consider proprietary software
>for such a purpose.
Why? What linux has to do with differential equations?
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