George R. Martin participated in authored a scientific paper

Despite lovers A song of ice and fire Perhaps he is still wandering in the following book that has been delayed in the series, the author of the best -selling science fiction George R. Martin Instead, he added a different element to the long list of publications: the physics paper that was just reviewed by the peers that were just reviewed in the American Journal of Physics in which she participated. The paper derives a formula for describing the dynamics of a fictional virus, which is the axis Barrie cards A series of books, a common world edited by Martin and Melinda M. Sinodgeria, with about 44 books.

Barrie cards Grow SuperWorld RPG, specifically a long -term campaign game by Martin in the 1980s, with many of the original science fiction book who contributed to participating in the series. (Neal Jiman at the time at that time might have installed Martin A. Barrie cards A story that involves a major figure who lived in a world of dreams. Martin refused the stadium, and The idea of ​​Jiman has become SandmanInitially, Martin planned to write a novel focused on his character’s turtle, but then decided that it would be better as a choice for the common universe. Martin believed that the superhera caricature had a very large number of sources of different powers and wanted to have one source of one source. Snodgrass suggested a virus.

This series is basically an alternative history of the United States in the aftermath of World War II. An atmosphere, an atmosphere designed to rewrite the DNA, was released on New York City in 1946 and spread worldwide, and it affects tens of thousands around the world. It is called the wild card virus because it affects each individual differently. It kills 90 percent of those who affect them and turn the rest. It ends with nine percent of the latter with unpleasant circumstances – they are called these permitted persons – while 1 percent of the great powers develop and are known as Aceses. Some Actions have very trivial “powerful” and uselessness that they are known as “Deuces”.

There was great speculation on Barrie cards A website that discusses the flag behind this virus, and has caught the attention of Ian Tritis, a physicist at the Los Olas National Laboratory, which he believed might represent a useful educational exercise. “Be a theory, I could only wonder whether there is a simple basic model that may result in Sharia,” Tregillis said. “Like any physicist, I started with reverse estimates, but then came out of the deep end. Ultimately, I suggested, just half given, that it might be easier to write a real physics paper from another blog post.”

A physicist is entered into a fictional world …

Tregillis naturally participated in the comment that is unbelievable, given that the issue of how any virus can give the great powers to humans that challenge the laws of physics is something that cannot be answered by nature. Focus on origin Barrie cards The rule of the universe 90: 9: 1, which adopts the mentality of an expert theoretical in the universe is keen to build a coherent mathematical framework that can describe viral behavior. The ultimate goal was to “show widespread flexibility and benefit the concepts of physics by converting this mysterious and non -operating problem to a direct dynamic system, thus putting a wealth of conceptual and sports tools at the disposal of students”, Tregillis and Martin Books in their paper.

The authors wrote that among the issues dealt with by the paper is the problem of Jokers and Aces as “mutual categories with a digital distribution that can be achieved on a hundred of two sides”, the authors wrote. “However, the Sharia abounds with the characters that confuse this classification:” Joker-Places “, who show a physical boom and a supernatural ability of man.”

They also suggest the existence of “encryption”: Joker and horses with mutations that cannot Jokerism. (One may argue that communication with Narwhales may make one Deuce.

In the end, Tregillis and Martin reached three basic rules: (1) exist, but how many are “unknown and unknown”; (2) The turns that can be observed will be distributed according to the rule of 90: 9: 1; And (3) The viral results will be determined by a Distribution of multi -variable probability.

The resulting model is assumed by two random variables, apparently: the severity of the transformation – that is, how much the virus changes the person, either in the severity of the clown deformation or the power of the great power in the ace – and a mixing angle to treat its presence Joker – places. “The card turns out that the Earth is close enough to one axis Autonomous The authors wrote: “The attendees are like your messengers, while they will be presented otherwise as those who are or on the places of Joker.”

The derivative form is those that take into account the many different methods that a specific system can develop (also known as a Langerjian formulation). “We have translated the abstract problem of the viral results of the wild card into a simple and tangible dynamic system. The medium behavior in this system is generated by the statistical distribution of the results.” Tregillis said.

Tregillis admits that this may not be a good exercise for the physics student at first, given that it includes multiple steps and covers many concepts that you may not fully understand students. It is also not proposed to add it to the basic approach. Instead, he recommends it to get highly high seminars to encourage students to explore an open research question.

This story was originally appeared on Art Technica.