{"id":226424,"date":"2025-12-03T16:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-ramanujans-formulae-for-pi-connect-to-modern-high-energy-physics"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:08:14","slug":"how-ramanujans-formulae-for-pi-connect-to-modern-high-energy-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-ramanujans-formulae-for-pi-connect-to-modern-high-energy-physics","title":{"rendered":"How Ramanujan\u2019s formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-ramanujans-formulae-for-pi-connect-to-modern-high-energy-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of us first hear about the irrational number \u03c0 (pi)\u2014rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits\u2014in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More recently, scientists have developed supercomputers that can estimate up to trillions of its digits.<\/p>\n<p>Now, physicists at the Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have found that pure mathematical formulas used to calculate the value of pi 100 years ago has connections to fundamental physics of today\u2014showing up in theoretical models of percolation, turbulence, and certain aspects of black holes.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/c38g-fd2v\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us first hear about the irrational number \u03c0 (pi)\u2014rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits\u2014in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More recently, scientists have developed supercomputers that can estimate up to trillions of its digits. Now, physicists at the Center for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,219,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226424","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}