Friday, April 3, 2009

Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics

From Wired Science

"In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings.

Developed by Cornell researchers, the program deduced the natural laws without a shred of knowledge about physics or geometry.

The research is being heralded as a potential breakthrough for science in the Petabyte Age, where computers try to find regularities in massive datasets that are too big and complex for the human mind. (See Wired magazine's July 2008 cover story on "The End of Science.")"


2 comments:

  1. Very good article. I knew that I should have invested some money in Google.

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  2. cool,that's a positive post.I don't like to hear to much negative.

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