The Amplituhedron: Newly Discovered Math Object Means "Space & Time May Be Illusions"

[kpete]

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

In other news today, the discovery of the amplituhedron, "a newly discovered mathematical object resembling a multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions," means that space and time may be illusions.


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.


Locality is the notion that particles can interact only from adjoining positions in space and time. And unitarity holds that the probabilities of all possible outcomes of a quantum mechanical interaction must add up to one. The concepts are the central pillars of quantum field theory in its original form, but in certain situations involving gravity, both break down, suggesting neither is a fundamental aspect of nature.

In keeping with this idea, the new geometric approach to particle interactions removes locality and unitarity from its starting assumptions. The amplituhedron is not built out of space-time and probabilities; these properties merely arise as consequences of the jewel’s geometry. The usual picture of space and time, and particles moving around in them, is a construct.

“It’s a better formulation that makes you think about everything in a completely different way,” said David Skinner, a theoretical physicist at Cambridge University.

The amplituhedron itself does not describe gravity. But Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators think there might be a related geometric object that does. Its properties would make it clear why particles appear to exist, and why they appear to move in three dimensions of space and to change over time.

MORE:
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Time and space are really very simple concepts.

Time exists so everything doesn't happen at once.
Space exists so everything doesn't happen to you.

This other thing is making my brain hurt.

[cleanhippie]

17. I really like the way you put that!

Gonna use it.

[enlightenment]

29. Thank you for saying that.

I tried to read that. I really did. Then I felt things breaking in my brain and had to stop.

I like your descriptions better.

[matt819]

32. My brain would have hurt

if I was able to even try to understand what it's all about.

Amplituhedron? Are you sure this isn't something from The Onion?

[enlightenment]

35. Where this is concerned, I am sure of nothing!

I never advanced past "tesseract"

[arewenotdemo]

40. But what if you "feel the world's pain"?

Like someone I know intimated.

[Uncle Joe]

61. Then pretend to smoke a doobie

that makes it easier to pretend that you don't feel the pain anymore.

[Skraxx]

69. Actually, They Dont Exist, Our Minds Created The Illusion of space-time

They are a byproduct of consciousness, possibly only sentient consciousness.

[Gravitycollapse]

92. False. Space-time is not merely a creation of the human mind...

Both space and time must be accommodated in physics calculations. They are are fundamentally real as any other aspect of existence.

[Skraxx]

108. Read Julian Barbours The End of Time

What you say is not necessarily true.

[lapislzi]

118. That is so brilliant it took my breath away.

Mind blown.

[Dash87]

120. Here's the thing, though -

Is there infinite space in space? How is that possible?

Has time been around forever? Will it be around forever?

[benld74]

2. UNTIL I see this on Big Bang Theory, I will not believe it!

[pinboy3niner]

4. I'm with you 'cause no matter what everybody says, I know you're not crazy

I heard your mother had you tested.

[Ian David]

7. Amplituhedron... Paper... Scissors... Lizard... Spock. n/t

[SamKnause]

77. Discovery

Bazinga !!!

[Hekate]

89. How soon can they put that episode together?

The boys will be very, very excited.

Then Penny will whip their asses at D&D. Again.

[MoonRiver]

3. WOW!

Science is catching up to many philosophical thought systems.

[FarCenter]

22. Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian

We establish a direct connection between scattering amplitudes in planar four-dimensional theories and a remarkable mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. The central physical idea is to focus on on-shell diagrams as objects of fundamental importance to scattering amplitudes. We show that the all-loop integrand in N=4 SYM is naturally represented in this way. On-shell diagrams in this theory are intimately tied to a variety of mathematical objects, ranging from a new graphical representation of permutations to a beautiful stratification of the Grassmannian G(k,n) which generalizes the notion of a simplex in projective space. All physically important operations involving on-shell diagrams map to canonical operations on permutations; in particular, BCFW deformations correspond to adjacent transpositions. Each cell of the positive Grassmannian is naturally endowed with positive coordinates and an invariant measure which determines the on-shell function associated with the diagram. This understanding allows us to classify and compute all on-shell diagrams, and give a geometric understanding for all the non-trivial relations among them. Yangian invariance of scattering amplitudes is transparently represented by diffeomorphisms of G(k,n) which preserve the positive structure. Scattering amplitudes in (1+1)-dimensional integrable systems and the ABJM theory in (2+1) dimensions can both be understood as special cases of these ideas. On-shell diagrams in theories with less (or no) supersymmetry are associated with exactly the same structures in the Grassmannian, but with a measure deformed by a factor encoding ultraviolet singularities. The Grassmannian representation of on-shell processes also gives a new understanding of the all-loop integrand for scattering amplitudes, presenting all integrands in a novel dLog form which directly reflects the underlying positive structure.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605

Catching up?

Video of talk.

http://susy2013.ictp.it/video/05_Friday/2013_08_30_Arkani-Hamed_4-3.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

50. and making it more complicated.

All those words just to say...we create our own reality.
or
everything is thought.

I prefer the Zen approach.

[1000words]

5. "End times" = End of time (n/t)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Nonsense. nt

[Ian David]

6. If Space and Time do not exist, then it's all Obama's fault. n/t

[mindwalker_i]

12. Maybe the Republicans can defund it

They should defund gravity while they're at it, or at least vote a few times...

[Ian David]

49. Gravity is Socialist. n/t

[msanthrope]

51. Well, yeah...it keeps everyone down on the same level. nt

[tblue37]

58. Hey, Punk! Gravity is NOT just

a good idea--it's the law!

[lumberjack_jeff]

25. If time and space don't exist, from your perspective, it always was and always will be your fault.

see post #1

Personally, I think time and space do exist, but I exist with in a bubble of causative exemption.

[bmbmd]

26. Time is but an illusion.

Lunchtime doubly so.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. There's always time for a game of Brockian Ultra-cricket (nt)

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. When philosophy and science intersect

[surrealAmerican]

9. I understand how a multi-dimensional geometric figure can redefine ...

... the notion of how space is structured, but I just don't understand how it would have an impact on the idea of time. You would have to already believe that time is an illusion for that.

[MineralMan]

31. Or you could believe that time is the expression of a dimension.

Try that on as a thought experiment.

The concept of multi-dimensional mathematical objects can be very confusing. We're OK with three dimensions, since that's what we relate to, but moving beyond that presents a lot of difficulties for most people.

There's an old book, very short, called "Flatland." Reading it is a great way to understand why we have trouble conceptualizing beyond three dimensions. You can read it online, complete with the original illustrations, at:

http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/

Another very interesting science fiction novel is Dragon's Egg, by Robert L. Forward. Written in 1980, it details life on the surface of a neutron star, and has implications about dimensionality, as well. See the Wikipedia article at the link. I remember reading this when it was first published, and it stimulated my thinking about multi-dimensional space, in a similar way that "Flatland" did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg

[glowing]

42. That was a neat little book. Had to read it in 9th grade Sci class.

[tblue37]

59. Hey, MM--

You and I read the same stuff! I've never encountered anyone else who has read those books. When I refer to them I get puzzled stares.

[MineralMan]

72. Cool! I used to read tons of SF.

[Melissa G]

98. Me, Too!

[hunter]

93. I start with this: Light does not experince time.

Thus the "time dimension" fails.

Followed by the "space" dimensions.

For me it was the Quantum Eraser experiments that removed all doubt. "Time and space" are artifacts of our own biology.

The "Universe" is something else.

[Gravitycollapse]

96. What do you mean light does not experience time? Is it sentient?

Does the celery I'm eating experience time? What about the empty beer bottle on my nightstand?

Does light exist within the realm of time? Absolutely. A photon takes X amount of time to travel over Y distance and X is always greater than null when Y is greater than null.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

106. It was a metaphor for illustrative purposes! What is meant about light is ...

Saying "light does not experience time" is a metaphorical way of saying that time effectively stops aboard a photon. Since time in an internal frame of reference slows down as that frame approaches the speed of light, the limit case is exactly at the speed of light, and the slowing down reaches the limit of no passing of time.

While time passes in an external frame of reference during a photon's travel, it does not pass in the internal frame of reference.

Your literal attack on the metaphor betrays some confusion about frames of reference. Even if a photon were sentient, its sentience would not be located in the external frame of reference that it passes through.

Celery does degrade even in the time it takes to eat a stalk. Even an empty beer bottle is eroding and losing molecules of glass and label. Impermanence is the way of all things, except (we think) photons that have not hit anything and similarly a few other particles in that class such as neutrinos.

Taking metaphors too literally can squeeze out the poetry of existence.

[Recursion]

107. No, but if it were, the universe would be flat and no time would ever pass

From the perspective of a photon created at point A and destroyed at point B, there is no space between A or B, and no time passes between its creation and destruction.

[Th1onein]

102. Yes! Like Reinmann said. Gravity is a function of geometry.

So could be time. Very interesting.

[MineralMan]

109. Our biggest problem with all of this is our

own physical existence. We experience the universe through our limitations, and find it very difficult to think about things from any other perspective. We see only a tiny slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, for example, and find it difficult to understand how things look to, say, insects, which view the world using a different slice than ours.

Getting rid of the concept of experiencing the universe in that limited way is what some scientists and mathematicians try to do. When they try to explain, though, most of us fail to understand even what they are talking about. Thus, we have people in this thread mocking those people for what they're doing. It's not an attractive trait, that mockery.

[Th1onein]

112. The mockery is a function of their ignorance and arrogance.

But I don't care. Let them stew in their four dimensional juices.

This kind of thing is exciting as hell to me. What if all that we see as energy/forces is a function of geometry? Just think of the things out there that exist, but that we cannot perceive.

[NightWatcher]

10. We're all just characters in a guy's dream

[woo me with science]

14. And it *is* THAT guy.

I knew when I first saw Bob that he was someone special.

[Skraxx]

11. Read Julian Barbour's "The End of Time"

[1000words]

53. Brilliant stuff

McTaggart's "The Unreality of Time," as well.

[Skraxx]

66. Yup, Time and Space It Seems Are Mental Constructs

derived from our observation of the universe. They are perceptual templates our minds develop as a way to better perceive and reference reality, and they are so ingrained that it's difficult to comprehend that they are not actually "Real", but rather byproducts of how our minds process sensory information.

[snooper2]

13. People should read the whole article instead of the "shocking" one liner in the OP title

just FYI

[La Lioness Priyanka]

54. article gave me brain pain

[woo me with science]

15. I have never discovered a "math object."

I will have to start looking down when I am walking around.

[BlueToTheBone]

16. The universe as a hologram

no space no time

form is emptiness and emptiness is form

[brooklynite]

18. So if the BIG hand is on the "six" and the LITTLE hand is on the "three", then.....

[TygrBright]

52. Then yer clock is busted.

'cause when the big hand is on the "six" on a working clock, the little hand isn't on ANY number, it's between two numbers.

helpfully,
Bright

[Tien1985]

80. Dang it TygrBright!

This article already broke some brians and here you are grinding the shards into dust!

[Skidmore]

19. I discovered this today.

http://now.msn.com/bohemian-rhapsody-a-capella-parody-bohemian-gravity-about-string-theory-quantum-physics

[MoonRiver]

20. I LOVE THIS THREAD

just sayin'

[hunter]

21. Anything that removes time and space from the equations is a very good lead.

Thanks for posting this!

[Avalux]

23. Ahhh....space and time are taken out of the computation....

removing those restrictions. The amplituhedron has a volume that equals the scattering amplitude.

From the article:

"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."

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/

This is signficant indeed - to be able to move beyond time and space and change how we look at everything.

[randome]

24. So God is a rainbow crystal? I'm okay with that.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]

[Mojorabbit]

70. :) nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

28. So, does this thread even exist, man?

[RC]

39. Only in your mind.

Even this response is an illusion.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

65. Whoa, that's, like totally meta, man.

[socialist_n_TN]

68. If it's meta, will it be locked?

[IDemo]

73. No, but it will be stored in the NSA Utah Data Center

[Th1onein]

103. DUzy!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

76. You, you, you!!

[leftyohiolib]

30. thanks obama NOW can we impeach him?

sarcasm

[KittyWampus]

33. I had a hallucinatory experience where such a jewel continually unfolded out of my mind's eye

it was during a Robert Fripp concert. He was looping music and my eyes were closed.

Proof you don't need LSD to have very colorful and very beautiful things to happen in your head.

[colorado_ufo]

34. What about American exceptionalism?

Do we HAVE to be part of this jewel thing-y? What if we WANT to exist in space and time? Can't we demand to be in space and time, if we want them?

[colorado_ufo]

37. The fastest way to travel - if there is such a concept as "fast."

Bob Lazar (Google him) explained intergalactic travel that way: He said that alien craft do not travel through space (if it exists!); rather, they focus on a point and bend space, so that travel from point to point is virtually instantaneous. This is why the theory that other civilizations cannot visit us because they are "light years away" is completely false.

[solarhydrocan]

60. Check out how Bob Lazar fuels his car

Former Area 51 employee Bob Lazar is interviewed by Visual Effects Supervisor Jon Farhat. In this video, they discuss what H1 (hydrogen) is, how it is created and it's potential in the automotive sector. In addition, Bob show us he has his own particle accelerator which he uses to create 6Li (lithium-6) H (hydride) for H1 storage.

6Li is used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. It is also one of the key components in making a thermal-nuclear weapon, but by itself is not dangerous. Because of crony capitalism and ignorant politicians, the US government has banned 6Li and the buying and selling of it. However, the making of 6Li H yourself with your own particle accelerator IS NOT!

Bob uses solar panels to power an H1 generator which produces H1 from H2O (water). For the safe and efficient storage of the dangerous H1,..

[jmowreader]

101. H1?

[MisterP]

81. why, it's basic theurgy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_al-Arz

[Bernardo de La Paz]

38. Stay Calm. The object explains a toy theory (one of Yang-Mills) and nothing more yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron

explains the toy theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%3D4_super_Yang-Mills

(which does not correspond with reality) and not much more yet.


All the same, it is very interesting, and I thank the OP for posting about it. This bears watching for developments.

[NealK]

41. Fascinating article.

Thanks for posting it kpete.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

43. Wouldn't you know it....

I just washed my car.

[SylviaD]

44. This sounds a lot like the "holographic universe" theory from a decade ago...

...and it sounds like just as much hokum.

I really think mathematicians and cosmologists are too clever for their own good. Far from providing answers, these kinds of theories make the universe seem absurd and, in an absurd universe, science itself is invalidated.

We need some philosophers to come along and school these runaway mathematical theorists.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

62. The holographic universe is still very much with us. See "quantum entanglement".

Ok, we get it. If you don't understand it and it seems weird, you think it is hokum.

Far from providing answers, these kinds of theories make the universe seem absurd and, in an absurd universe, science itself is invalidated. We need some philosophers to come along and school these runaway mathematical theorists.

There is no logic and no credible philosophy that supports your statement that "in an absurd universe, science itself is invalidated." What seems absurd to you today will seem commonplace next decade.

[SylviaD]

67. I really wasn't trying to be a smartass...

...sorry if it came across that way. Do you always attack like that, or just when you are talking to a woman?

*ahem* sorry, but I get a bit annoyed at aggressive responses to my posts. Let's start over.

I call these kind of scientific theories "hokum" because they aren't really even science.

Science requires proof. Mathematical noodling doesn't.

Can they prove any of this conjecture? No. Is there any *way* to prove it? Not really. This is a sort of pseudoscience. Mind you, it's not the kind of pseudoscience we are used to, like witch doctoring or Q Ray bracelets. This is pseudoscience on the other end of the spectrum. The math looks intriguing, it leads to all sorts of wild speculation, but in reality there is no way to support it or prove it with experiment and testing. You might as well bring God into it, since he/she/it is equally unproveable.

I have spoken to mathematicians who agree. It's possible to mathematically suppose all sorts of odd situations and configurations, but unless they are part of a testable theory, they're nothing more than intellectual noodling, as I said.

And I'm not claiming I'm intelligent enough to underdstand all the nuances of the mathematics. Far from it. But just as the atheist perhaps doesn't know every dogma a religion espouses, he knows enough to see the shape of what's being described, and recognize it as foolery.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

71. This is better. It gets into the philosophy of mathematics.

The fundamental question of the philosophy of mathematics: Is mathematics invented or discovered. I tend to go with the latter view. I think that Mathematics is so fundamental that it permeates everything. ... that there are aspects of the universe that reflect or are described by any mathematical schema you can think of and they await our discovery.

However, ... sometimes we "invent" (discover) a mathematical technique and then discover that is provides a great new perspective that enables us to see things in "a new light", so to speak. This perspective might tie together some things that were previously thought unrelated or hard to reconcile or complicated to combine. It might also suggest 'corollaries' that suggest new physical theories or forces or particles and when we go looking for them, there they are.

For example, the algebraic underpinnings of quantum theory were discovered before the theory was created. Tensor calculus was developed before Einstein needed it.

Naturally, those advances in physics created the need for refinements in the math and for new mathematical techniques, which led to new physical advances ....

P.S. In my post I made no reference to your sex and did not consider it.

[SylviaD]

85. I can certainly see your point.

I'd just like to see a glimpse of the "need" before I go all in on accepting any purely mathematical models as fact. I'm a little uncomfortable with taking at face value purely theoretical math concepts without at least a glimmer of cosmological evidence for their reality.

But yes, you are right in that it's really a philosophy of mathematics debate.

P.S. That's good to know. I am a bit bristly about sexism, didn't mean to be accusatory.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

82. Did you just accuse someone of sexism because you're clueless about science?

Did you further characterize the conversation as an "attack"? I'd say you have lots to learn about both science and GD.

[SylviaD]

83. Excuse me, don't interrupt when adults are talking. n/t

[DisgustipatedinCA]

86. 227 posts, with at least two false accusations meant to hide ignorance.

Math just don't seem right to me....them mathers is too smart for their own good. Is that how adults are made in your locale?

[sibelian]

113. Ignore list.

Abrasive, arrogant, imaginary sexism...

Goodbye.

[Gravitycollapse]

94. "Testable" is actually called "falsifiable" and it comes in many forms...

All of which may be defined as "direct observation" but from there the methods can differ greatly.

You can disprove inductive arguments that are logically valid. All the while what is being discussed may or may not actually exist in the "observable" universe.

What's more, there are several fields of physics involving physical scales below which can be measured visually. They must be observed and hypothesized upon without the aid of sight. And they are just as legitimate as any other field of science.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

115. Essay on Philosophy of Mathematics:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-abbott/is-mathematics-invented-o_b_3895622.html?utm_hp_ref=science

It includes the phrase at the very end "The reasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics", which would be a rebuttal to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics" by Wigner, which gets into the Platonist / non-Platonist debate.

[SylviaD]

117. Thank you, Bernardo. n/t

[Gravitycollapse]

95. If you want someone to tell you life isn't absurd, go to church. If you want a philosopher...

You better damn well anticipate the possibility that he or she is in partial or total agreement with the tenants of existentialism.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

111. If you click on the link for the duality of string and quantum field theory in the article,

you get to this:

Of all the strange forms of matter, cuprates — copper-containing metals that exhibit a property called high-temperature superconductivity — may be the strangest. In new research published online June 24 in the Journal of High Energy Physics, physicists at the University of California-Santa Barbara have explored the deeper phenomena that they claim are connected to the perplexing “surface-level” behavior of cuprates. By focusing their calculations on that underlying environment, the researchers derived a formula for the conductivity of cuprates that was previously known only from experiments.

“The amazing thing is you start with this theory and out you get the conductivity of these strange superconductors,” said Sachdev, who was not involved with the work.

The results bolster the evidence that this new way of looking at nature’s building blocks is real and that it is “strikingly literal,” said Jan Zaanen, a theoretical physicist at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

This is the article: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130701-signs-of-a-stranger-deeper-side-to-natures-building-blocks/

So it appears we have some very practical real-world implications going on in here.

[WinkyDink]

45. My only thought is: I'd like a ring with that design!

[another_liberal]

46. Sweet!

I'll be dreaming about that one for a few nights.

[Eddie Haskell]

47. It looks like a tuning fork

It probably receives all of our intentions and spits out the wave patterns that make up the particles of our future. We control everything ... Think positively, and treat others as you would want others to treat you.

[KansDem]

48. I'm always amazed when some concept like "a newly discovered mathematical object...

...resembling a multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions, means that space and time may be illusions," can be depicted in a two-dimensional drawing.

It kind of hits me sideways...

[bluedigger]

55. I guess this means I never have to worry about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[jberryhill]

56. See? See? They WARNED us Obama would suspend term limits!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

57. Sounds like some timey-wimey kinda thing.

[Jeroen]

63. Perhaps, like space and time, entanglement is also arising from geometry?

That said, I read the article two times and still don't understand it fully

[Whisp]

64. This is magic, I love it.

I have not much of a clue what that article really means (I might have to read it about 27 more times), it's just when I read stuff like this it's what I think taking a good hit of a great drug would be (which I don't or did not ever do - yet).

The idea of Everything being Here Now All Over - things, space, time, is so fascinating to me. It's not linear, it's circular - if we knew how we can break through this illusion we have been trapped in for some reason.

wow. man.

[Rex]

74. I remember making one of those things with a 24th level mage.

Dam thing took forever.

[randome]

75. This is the discoverer of the amplituhedron.

So take it all with a grain of salt.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Rex]

78. Looks like he is wearing one.

It must be reflecting his brain thoughts into mind bullets.

[bvar22]

79. This is your last chance.

After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth – nothing more.

[kentuck]

87. The stars in the sky are just an illusion...

Everyone sees them differently. However, by sheer power of suggestion, you can persuade someone that they can see Orion's Belt. In other words, we create our own illusions and share them with our friends. They become the new reality.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

84. So the master amplituhedron is kinda like Plato's Form of Forms,

from which you descend into the everyday world, which is a shadow of the world of Forms.
Which was Plato's way of dealing with Parmenides, who logically "proved" that time and space are an illusion, the world being in fact a single, indivisible solid object, a single atom. (Atom meaning "indivisible", you know.) Zeno's paradoxes were proofs that Parmenides was right.
The Greeks couldn't figure a way around his logic, so later philosophers tried coming up with ways to admit Parmenidean solids but account for the real world anyway. Thus Plato's Form of Forms, which was a big fat Parmenidean whole inside which we all lived.
Which brings us back to the amplituhedron, and to these guys saying that space and time are not just illusions, they're obstacles, it seems, to understanding how the Universe works.
Parmenides would have agreed. Plato probably would have too.

[postulater]

88. This has already been adopted into

a new technology.

http://m.wimp.com/buildit/

[randome]

90. I'd like to see the patent application on this!

I call dibs on the amplituhedron!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[TransitJohn]

91. Gene Ray was right all along

http://www.timecube.com

[lonestarnot]

97. Whoa-ah.

See nothing is ever as it appears. Told you.

[Gravitycollapse]

99. This is a toy model in physics. Which means it is a simplification for the purposes of calculation.

The amplituhedron doesn't actually "exist" in the strictest sense of the word.

In the same way that astronomers describe the pull of gravity between two planets with a rubber-band visualization.

[Eddie Haskell]

119. It's geometry ... It's all that exists.

[Gravitycollapse]

121. False. It is a toy model, as I've said, and is a simple shortcut.

[Coyotl]

100. Reminds me of dreaming, when time and space do not conform to normal consciousness,

when we entertain ourselves with all manner of the improbable, impossible, and imaginative scenarios, in seamless jumps of time and place, where the imagined seems real until you realize you're spinning your own reality.

[TroglodyteScholar]

104. "Math object"

Heh.

[Blue Owl]

105. Truth is stranger than Science Fiction

[Orrex]

110. Isn't that what brought Supergirl into conflict with Faye Dunaway?

[randome]

116. No, that was a casting agency foul-up.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Petrushka]

114. YouTube video of Nima Arkani-Hamed talking (& answering a few questions) about The Amplituhedron