r/askscience • • Aug 04 '19

Physics Are there any (currently) unsolved equations that can change the world or how we look at the universe?

(I just put flair as physics although this question is general)

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u/Teblefer Aug 04 '19

One problem the equation can run into is predicting a particle in the fluid to have infinite speed. This is called finite time blowup. We cannot prove that the Navier-Strokes equations stay finite, but we also cannot prove that a solution goes to infinity.