So it turns out that some physicists and mathematicians got together and had a few drinks. They talked about what they where working on realized something awesome. The mathematicians were working on proving an equation to predict prime numbers. The physicists were working on a way to predict quantum states of energy. It just so happened that they were working on the same things. The equations line up and in the near future there will be a proof for predicting prime numbers which will allow the field of mathematics to jump forward in huge ways. The cooler thing for me though was if they can get the equation panned out properly they will be able to predict stable quantum states of energy which seems lame until you realize that you could predict the periodicity of the next stable high density element. With that information we could use a particle accelerator to crate stable high density elements that are not radioactive. Although it is true that these elements would be few and far between as prime numbers occur about every n numbers in a10^n set (so about every 9 numbers is prime in a 10^9 set; there is an adjustment factor for this as well) it still means that we could make super high density elements that could revolutionize the material science industry.
Science is just awesome.
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Starting off reading this I thought it would be a joke. Then it turned into crazy science but I'll agree that it is indeed awesome.
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