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Last week's reactor accident in the Soviet Union is an historic event that will change the course of the remainder of the twentieth century. But the clouds may also have a silver lining.
Whether or not it is possible to represent hydrodynamical systems by autonomous entities on the vertices of a lattice threatens to become an unreal issue.
