How Has Technology Transformed Traditional Physics Calculations?

Kevin Luxford
Let me introduce myself. I am Kevin Luxford. I graduated in Science, majoring in Physics, at Canterbury University, New Zealand, in 1963. I subsequently graduated in Engineering (Electrical) from the same university in 1966.

A year or so ago I had the opportunity to tour the Australian Synchrotron, and the tour brought the whole of my physics course together. Wonderful day!

Current interests in retirement are revisiting old projects that I completed as an undergrad, but using a desktop computer instead of the venerable IBM 1620. (I think that 1620 took about 20 seconds to invert a 4 x 4 matrix - my desktop computer running Fortran can invert a 6 x 6 matrix in less than a second.

Regards to all
Kevin
 
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Hello everyone, I was advised to join this community while seeking guidance on how to navigate the academic world as an independent researcher. My name is Omar, and I'm based in Groningen The Netherlands. My formal physics education ended after high school, but I have dedicated the last several years to developing a theoretical framework from first principles. My work focuses on a topological field theory (which I call Swirl-String Theory) that models particles as knotted vortex...
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