Our physics expert picks his top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a bucket of baseballs. Thanks, Einstein!

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Researchers at Tampere University and the University of Eastern Finland have reached a milestone in a study where they derived a new kind of wave equation, which applies for accelerating waves ...

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Citations E. Giorgi, S. Klainerman and J. Szeftel Wave equations estimates and the nonlinear stability of slowly rotating Kerr black holes. arXiv. Posted May 31, 2022. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2205.14808.