ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Jacobi process

Okay, kiddo, let me explain what the Jacobi process is in simple terms. Can you imagine you have a bunch of friends playing a game of tag in a park? Each time someone gets tagged, they become the new "it" and have to tag someone else. This is kind of like the Jacobi process.

In the Jacobi process, we have a bunch of points that are moving around randomly and when they collide, they "tag" each other. This happens again and again, causing the points to spread out over time. It's like if you have two bubbles of different colors in a bowl and you start to stir, eventually the colors will mix and spread out evenly throughout the bowl.

Scientists like to use the Jacobi process to study things like how particles diffuse in a fluid, or how diseases can spread through a population. By understanding how the points move and interact, we can make predictions about how things will spread and change over time.

Overall, the Jacobi process is a way of modeling random movements and interactions between particles, and it helps us better understand how things work in the world around us.