{"id":167779,"date":"2023-07-19T02:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/will-ai-make-mc-the-mvp-of-particle-physics"},"modified":"2023-07-19T02:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T07:24:23","slug":"will-ai-make-mc-the-mvp-of-particle-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/will-ai-make-mc-the-mvp-of-particle-physics","title":{"rendered":"Will AI make MC the MVP of particle physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-ai-make-mc-the-mvp-of-particle-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally developed nearly a century ago by physicists studying neutron diffusion, Monte Carlo simulations are mathematical models that use random numbers to simulate different kinds of events. As a simple example of how they work, imagine you have a pair of six-sided dice, and you\u2019d like to determine the probability of the dice landing on any given number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou take your dice, and you repeat the same exercise of throwing them on the table, and you look at the outcome,\u201d says Susanna Guatelli, associate professor of physics at the University of Wollongong in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>By repeating the dice-throwing experiment and recording the number of times your dice land on each number, you can build a \u201cprobability distribution\u201d\u2014a list giving you the likelihood your dice will land on each possible outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally developed nearly a century ago by physicists studying neutron diffusion, Monte Carlo simulations are mathematical models that use random numbers to simulate different kinds of events. As a simple example of how they work, imagine you have a pair of six-sided dice, and you\u2019d like to determine the probability of the dice landing on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167779","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}