06/05/2024

Scientific article by Bank and Mailybaev reaches YouTube.

Reprodução YouTube “Science with Sabine”

"The butterfly effect is much worse than we thought." With this title, a video published on YouTube by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has been attracting an audience. In the video, she addresses the main topics of the scientific article "Spontaneous Stochasticity Amplifies Even Thermal Noise to the Largest Scales of Turbulence in a Few Eddy Turnover Times," which includes IMPA researcher Alexei Mailybaev among its authors. The video already has 298,000 views. Watch it here!

Mailybaev's work with researchers Dmytro Bandak ( University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/USA) , Gregory Eyink (University of Baltimore/USA) and Nigel Goldenfeld (University of California/USA) was published in March in Physical Review Letters.

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“Much of this research was conducted during Dmytro Bandak’s year-long visit to IMPA in 2022 and 2023. Dmytro is Ukrainian, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), and defended his thesis in 2023,” explained Mailybaev.

The YouTube channel “Science with Sabine” is dedicated to updates and summaries of topics involving science and technology and has over 1 million subscribers. The researcher, who holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a doctorate in physics, has written more than 80 research articles on topics ranging from quantum gravity to particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics, statistical mechanics, and quantum fundamentals.