MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
By EmmaZahn on Thu, 12/12/2013 - 12:11pm |
The revelation that particle interactions, the most basic events in nature, may be consequences of geometry significantly advances a decades-long effort to reformulate quantum field theory, the body of laws describing elementary particles and their interactions. Interactions that were previously calculated with mathematical formulas thousands of terms long can now be described by computing the volume of the corresponding jewel-like “amplituhedron,” which yields an equivalent one-term expression.
“The degree of efficiency is mind-boggling,” said Jacob Bourjaily, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University and an author of the first of two papers detailing the new idea. “You can easily do, on paper, computations that were infeasible even with a computer before.”
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/amplituhedron-jewel-quantum-physics/
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Comments
Mathematics is really just a language when I think about it although there is a precision I do not pretend to understand.
Sounds like 'they' have just come up with a new sub language related to mathematics!
Fascinating article.
by Richard Day on Thu, 12/12/2013 - 2:10pm
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Emma. I'm mildly skeptical, but hopeful that this is as mind-blowingly awesome as it seems. It's going to take me a while to properly understand it.
by Verified Atheist on Thu, 12/12/2013 - 2:58pm
Kind of frightening in a way.
But hey, “amplituhedron”!
Frequencies!
by EmmaZahn on Thu, 12/12/2013 - 5:05pm