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Diffusion Equation, interpretation

This should be contrasted to the displacement of a free particle with initial velocity v0. In that case the distance from the initial position after a time t is x(t)=vt whereas for a diffusion process the root mean square value is x2x2t. Since diffusion is strongly linked with random walks, we could say that a random walker escapes much more slowly from the starting point than would a free particle.