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  • Some physicists are banking on even stranger geometrical ideas being a route to a “theory of everything”, a single framework that explains the cosmos and everything in it. One of these is the “amplituhedron”, a mathematical object developed by Jaroslav Trnka at the University of California, Davis, and Nima Arkani-Hamed at the Institute for Advanced Study, New Jersey.

    Why physicists think geometry is the path to a theory of everything Michael Brooks 2025

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  • ""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."

    - Quanta Magazine, 17-9-13

    September 19, 2013

  • cool

    September 19, 2013