The mathematical theory of random polynomials and random matrices has already found many applications in physics. Indeed the Hamiltonian of a complex or chaotic system can often be viewed as such a matrix.

We were interested in the case of interacting atoms in which the roots of the polynomials -- that is the location of the quantized vortices -- form a regular array. To our surprise we noticed that even for strictly non-interacting atoms, a local order of the vortex distribution remained.

Indeed, current experimental conditions are already less than an order of magnitude away from required conditions.

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.