[LibWhacker]

Newly discovered geometrical object that simplifies some calculations in physics.

[teeman8r]

i believe it has always been there, man has just now realized it...

the arrogance of man, to the reality of the Creator.

[bkepley]

Euclid would approve.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Nice post!

[Uncle Miltie]

Great. Now I have to go buy another piece of jewelry.

[chrisser]

I don’t pretend to understand everything in the article, but it sure sounds fascinating.

Seems like everything we think we know about reality is actually an illusion (or “emergent”, to use their term).

It’s bad enough being a temporary miniscule speck of dust in an infinite universe. Now we’re temporary miniscule specks of dust in an infinite universe that’s just a construct of a completely different reality we can only dimly grasp.

Puts the headache I have this morning into a little different persective.

[colinhester]

Bflr

[reed13k]

save for later

[InterceptPoint]

“They are very powerful calculational techniques, but they are also incredibly suggestive,” Skinner said. “They suggest that thinking in terms of space-time was not the right way of going about this.”
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If this doesn’t get your attention then you haven’t been following the last 100 year of progress in our attempt to unravel the secrets of nature.

This could be revolutionary. I hope so.

And I wonder how this impacts current String Theory. A confirmation perhaps or, like the Feynman diagram, no longer useful.

[techcor]

Bump for later reading.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Proving once again the old axiom “To iterate is human, to recurse - divine.”

[zeugma]

It appears to be a fractal. That is rather unsurprising IMO.

[First_Salute]

Very well-written article by Natalie Wolchover.

Incredible find, that the sum of multiple approaches toward solving a problem, turns out to be an overall effort to arrive at the volume of a geometric body.

[steve86]

Good article.

[MHGinTN]

Kerping ... would not you Ladies to miss this one!

[Daffynition]

presentation of the idea at SUSY2013

He seems to have lineage as a political refugee of Iranian heritage.

Nima Arkani-Hamed is a professor of physics at Harvard University. His father is a physicist who openly spoke against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard after the Iranian revolution in 1979. In fear for their lives, his family fled through the Turkish border on horseback in 1981, tearing up their passports as they cross the border. Nima's family emigrated to Canada where Nima finished high school and attended the University of Toronto as an undergraduate. He received is Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1997 and took a research position at Stanford before moving back to Berkeley two years later for a faculty position. The return was short-lived as Harvard snatched him up in 2001.

Nima is considered the greatest theoretical particle physicist of his generation. Despite his youth, he has become a leader in the field, creating subfields with each new idea. He now splits his time between studying fundamental issues with quantum theories of gravity and hands-on contributions to understanding in detail what we see at the LHC.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~peer/ParticleFever/nima.html

[Lancey Howard]

Yes. It all makes sense.

[Gene Eric]

The article you just read meant something different beforehand.

[Cvengr]

Same concept behind Brillouin Zones and reciprocal lattice space.

[Abathar]

Goes right along with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjbtsX7twc&feature=youtu.be

(They did a great job syncing this!)

[NonLinear]

Requires a bookmark for revisiting!
Thanks!