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Thank you for the interessting material! I have heard a lecture on the geometric and topological applications to solid-state physics. This is one of the things
by zaph0d_ 9y ago
Thank you for the interessting material! I have heard a lecture on the geometric and topological applications to solid-state physics. This is one of the things that excites me a lot that whole areas of physics can be "geometrized".
- emmelaich 9y agoYou've reminded me of Plato's quotes: "God ever geometrizes." and "Geometry existed before the creation."
- Retra 9y agoPart of me believes that geometry is really just a subset of human thinking that comes very naturally/quickly to us, and thus we are more successful studying physics through geometry than through less 'algebraic' frameworks. So we made the most advances there just because we are biased toward doing so. But then I think that we may be so strongly biased toward doing so because there's something fundamentally easy about evolving a brain that comprehends geometry. That information with geometric representations are fundamentally easier to evolve good mental models for than other kinds of information.