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Math's 'god particle' may be prime numbers. Though on the surface the concept of prime numbers involves just integers and you can explain it to 8-year olds, the
by peter303 9y ago
Math's 'god particle' may be prime numbers. Though on the surface the concept of prime numbers involves just integers and you can explain it to 8-year olds, there are major unproven conjectures and deep allied mathematics. And now the worlds digital banking system and private messages depends on special properties of prime numbers [factorization].
- popcorncolonel 9y agoThat's just because we know very little about them. It very well could be the case that factoring semiprimes might be ridiculously easy, but we are just too dumb right now to figure out how to do it quickly (even if P != NP -- we haven't even shown that factorization is NP complete).