Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math

12/22/2019

This article discusses a recent discovery in mathematics that was made possible through the study of neutrinos, subatomic particles with nearly zero mass. Researchers studying neutrinos found evidence of an unexpected mathematical pattern known as "unitarity" in the behavior of these particles. Unitarity is a fundamental principle of quantum physics, and its connection to neutrinos brought about a surprising insight into the distribution of prime numbers. The article explains how this discovery led to new discoveries in number theory and highlights the unexpected ways in which different fields of science and mathematics can intersect and contribute to each other.

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