Artist’s rendering of the amplituhedron, a newly discovered mathematical object resembling a multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions. Encoded in its volume are the most basic features of reality that can be calculated — the probabilities of outcomes of particle interactions.
"Beyond making calculations easier or possibly leading the way to quantum gravity,
the discovery of the amplituhedron could cause an even more profound shift, Arkani-Hamed said. That is, giving up space and time as fundamental constituents of nature and figuring out how the Big Bang and cosmological evolution of the universe arose out of pure geometry...." - - | Simons Foundation
In the place of flux we find new forms,
And our flux-formed spaces fold
The charms of magnet's fever
Which conduct the core from pole to pole.
II.
The whiteness of Earth's silence
Is an eye that stares on space.
Orbits chart it ceaselessly,
Etching paradigms of lace.
The inner of Earth's outer
Is a torus twisted twice.
Balloons ascend within it
Claiming shadows are the room.
- - Pure Science @ AMERICAN DIGEST
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 29, 2013 1:22 AMSo now geometry is god? Anything but the real God I guess.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 29, 2013 7:26 AMLewis Carroll would be proud. Or maybe dismayed.
Posted by: BillH at September 29, 2013 1:46 PMChristopher Taylor: "So now geometry is god? Anything but the real God I guess."
No, geometry is not God. God is a geometrician.
Posted by: Fat Man at September 30, 2013 12:09 AMYou be tinkin' about dis, Fat Man? What's old is new again.
Posted by: Sigh-It Q-Tip at October 1, 2013 2:17 AM
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