...this, by the way, is mathematical...
Nah, think of everything as a bunch of waves interacting with each other. The anyons are like generating “rogue waves”, peaks that “pop up” out of “nowhere”. Note that the article didn’t say anything about a different interpretation of quantum field theory, a newly found expression of it. These guys would never have released the results if the math didn’t check out.
Supposedly the hole rest of everything is made up of waves, E=MC**2.
Anyway, thats how I think about while sitting back and drinking a beer ;-)
That wasn’t Heisenberg; it was JBS Haldane.
Heisenberg: “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
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Wrong/mistaken attribution
Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927), p. 227
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose - J. B. S. Haldane
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