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Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics
New submitter Lee_Dailey sends this news from Quanta Magazine:
"Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality. 'This is completely new and very much simpler than anything that has been done before,' said Andrew Hodges, a mathematical physicist at Oxford University who has been following the work. 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."
believing in a soul is a religion.
"perhaps at a quantum level. "
sigh. get out.
" There is nothing that spectacular about humans"
oh, I disagree.
We can cross vast oceans, build tower to touch the sky, scream around the globe, communicate around the world, been to the moon, and hae a machine sending signals from the edge of the Solar System.
We are pretty damn spectacular. Are we the center of everything? no.
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>> "perhaps at a quantum level. "
> sigh. get out.
Right, just like "Dark Energy" and "Dark Matter" that _no_one_ has observed.
The parent is entitled to his opinion regardless of your ignorance.