Posted on 09/19/2013 5:59:05 AM PDT by LibWhacker
i believe it has always been there, man has just now realized it...
the arrogance of man, to the reality of the Creator.
Well yes, that pretty much is the definition of discovery, as opposed to invention.
Euclid would approve.
Unmoved mover anyone?
Nice post!
Great. Now I have to go buy another piece of jewelry.
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.
Bflr
save for later
“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.
“No model is correct. Some are useful.” - George E.P. Box
Bump for later reading.
Proving once again the old axiom “To iterate is human, to recurse - divine.”
i guess more than discovering... identifying... physicists new something was there... that which they couldn’t explain... discovering something that was there, like north america in colombus days, ignorance of its existance, doesn’t grant a “discovery” but a realization of its identity.
men of faith knew of God’s touch, but couldn’t specifically identify it.
teeman
quantify... “later”.
aha - I see what you did there...
It appears to be a fractal. That is rather unsurprising IMO.
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.
Agreed. I often wonder how much is lost in the process of simplifying it.
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.
Indeed. It would be interesting as well to look at this geometry from a perspective of how such an object would unfold. Just about any geometric shape can ultimately be folded flat. Maybe thats where we live.
I also love that fact that the object in question looks fractal, and indeed seems to have fractal properties judging from the description. I've long thought that the universe itself could be described by what is probably a fairly short fractal equation. God, it is readily apparent to me anyway, seems to have a sense of humor, and this would fit right in with that.
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