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The World's Numerical Recipe

The World's Numerical Recipe

This video was recorded at MIT World Series: Nobel Laureate Speakers. "We can cook up a superb model of ordinary matter (allowing a very liberal definition of ordinary) using four numerical parameters as ingredients. A passable model needs only two. After adding another two ingredients, for six total, we can serve up astrophysics. Five might do in a pinch. I'll describe the ingredients, and show you the recipe."... Show More

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