Gordian

The tangled wars in Sudan, Ethiopia and their neighbours cry out for bold action - and if he were so minded, Trump might cut the Gordian Knot.

"I think we've seen a significant change this year. It's what I call an assertive transparency campaign," says retired Colonel Raymond Powell of Stanford University's Gordian Knot Centre.

Essentially, by plugging the equations of the Standard Model into powerful computers, researchers can numerically approximate the mess of hadronic blobs, cutting through the subatomic Gordian knot.

The Gordian Knot Center launched in 2021 with funding from the Office of Naval Research.

“If you’re in the middle of providing abortion pills, inevitably that in this country right now is going to become a Gordian knot for your company,” he said.