How Random Matrix theory sheds a light on the laws underlying reality.

Re:How Random Matrix theory sheds a light on the laws underl... by CWuestefeld on Thursday April 08, 2010 @11:17AM (#1249974)

From the article, it seems like I could just fill in a grid with random numbers, wave my hands, and then divine the secrets of nature by reading it as tea leaves. What an awful article.

Also: ...has computed the locations of as many as 10^23 zeros of the Riemann zeta function and found a near-perfect agreement with random matrix theory.

I think that when you're talking about mathematics, "near-perfect agreement" is synonymous with "not in agreement".

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Re:How Random Matrix theory sheds a light on the laws underl... by kurtosis on Thursday April 08, 2010 @01:38PM (#1250318)

I'm really surprised at the negative reaction to this article! For what it's worth here's a great (much more mathematically sophisticated) article on this topic (that is nonetheless still quite speculative in its tone)

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/eigen.pdf

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