{"id":107998,"date":"2020-06-01T05:07:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T12:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/100-year-old-physics-problem-finally-solved-accurately-predicts-transmission-of-infectious-diseases"},"modified":"2020-06-01T05:07:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T12:07:34","slug":"100-year-old-physics-problem-finally-solved-accurately-predicts-transmission-of-infectious-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/100-year-old-physics-problem-finally-solved-accurately-predicts-transmission-of-infectious-diseases","title":{"rendered":"100-Year-Old Physics Problem Finally Solved \u2013 Accurately Predicts Transmission of Infectious Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/100-year-old-physics-problem-finally-solved-accurately-predicts-transmission-of-infectious-diseases2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Bristol academic has achieved a milestone in statistical\/mathematical physics by solving a 100-year-old physics problem \u2013 the discrete diffusion equation in finite space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The long-sought-after solution could be used to accurately predict encounter and transmission probability between individuals in a closed environment, without the need for time-consuming computer simulations.<\/p>\n<p>In his paper, published in <em>Physical Review X<\/em>, Dr. Luca Giuggioli from the Department of Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol describes how to analytically calculate the probability of occupation (in discrete time and discrete space) of a diffusing particle or entity in a confined space \u2013 something that until now was only possible computationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bristol academic has achieved a milestone in statistical\/mathematical physics by solving a 100-year-old physics problem \u2013 the discrete diffusion equation in finite space. The long-sought-after solution could be used to accurately predict encounter and transmission probability between individuals in a closed environment, without the need for time-consuming computer simulations. In his paper, published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,41,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-information-science","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}