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Modelling and simulation

Modelling and simulation

(Courtesy: Heikka Valja)
14 Aug 2018
Taken from the August 2018 issue of Physics World under the headline "Studying impossible systems"

How do you study a phenomenon that cannot be replicated on Earth? You study one that has nothing to do with it, but looks incredibly similar mathematically. Matthew R Francis examines how these analogue systems are being used to study monopoles and black holes

Some experiments simply can’t be done. It’s a hard truth that physicists learn to face at an ear

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