Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics

I saw something about this before and thought I had blogged it but I can't find it now. Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics. "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."

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