A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality.
“This is completely new and very much simpler than anything that has been done before,” said Andrew Hodges, a mathematical physicist at Oxford University who has been following the work.
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.
“The degree of efficiency is mind-boggling,” said Jacob Bourjaily, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University and one of the researchers who developed the new idea. “You can easily do, on paper, computations that were infeasible even with a computer before.”
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I got that from one my dance friends on FB. She's into such stuff.
I can partly grasp it it and that's all. 
For shame!
You know... Incomprehensibility.
I knew I should have gone beyond a BS in physics.
A physicist would call the universe an emergent behavior of quantum theory, but not an epiphenomenum.
The latter implies a lack of causality and I don't know any physicist who credibly believes that. Quantum is still causal in that the universe as it is observed is an emergent and causal outcome of processes which are at their base, non-causal.
We see the same process in biology. Although evolution is blind and random at its base, natural selection leverages the random variations into a very powerful model for how life in the universe operates.
I firmly believe that quantum theory provides the base on which the universe operates. It is non-causal at its base, but the emergent behavior is causal, just like biology.
I think that if one strays far from these principles, one may be wasting ones career. But one never knows.
I wish these people luck, just like I do the String Modelers. Both are long shots. But we all need lots of ideas on the table, even if they seem weird.
And this does have that Time Cube element to it.
thanks for your response.
