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Football in the fourth dimension
In the 19th century, mathematician Georg Bernhard Riemann postulated the existence of a fourth spatial dimension. Whilst it is possible to represent this higher dimension mathematically, it is impossible for humans to visualise this extra dimension as our brains are … Continue reading
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Statistics (ii)
Utilising its very own player ratings from the qualifiers, WCC recently demonstrated how England should line up this summer. [These statistics can be viewed by clicking here]. It was decided when organizing this data that the team should come before … Continue reading
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Left-back in the changing room
The current formational hegemony in football converges on 4-2-3-1. This is can be considered either a 4-5-1 with a staggered midfield, or a mutation of 4-4-2 with a withdrawn forward and two deep central midfielders. As this is the current … Continue reading
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Statistics
Someone once said: “There are…lies, damn lies and statistics”. But they were clearly being ironic as everyone knows that statistics are numbers and that numbers are, essentially, the same thing as facts. With this in mind, we focus attention on … Continue reading
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The Higgs Boson
In 1967 Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam independently constructed a theory that unified electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces: the Weinberg-Salam model of the electroweak force. This theory requires that the Higgs boson exists; but its existence is yet to be … Continue reading
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