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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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The Soliton Wave and the Chaos Theory

A soliton is a cell-free-enforcing wave packet that can travel long distances without changing its shape or velocity. Solitons are really interesting in and into themselves. In 1983, the mathematician Howell Peregrine came up with a different kind of soliton wave when trying to solve the nonlinear Schrodinger equation.

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