A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
Is anyone here familiar with this work? I would like to hear more about it. At a minimum, this article is very much better than the usual science blog filler—it contains signs of a genuine conceptual breakthrough. For example:“You can easily do, on paper, computations that were infeasible even with a computer before.”That doesn't happen very often! Or this:[T]he 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.That is exactly the kind of thing that happens when one model is replaced with a deeper one.