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Perhaps we need some new mathematics, not new physics
by moralsupply 7y ago
Perhaps we need some new mathematics, not new physics
- tim333 7y agoI think setting AI on it may be the way forward.
- hhas01 7y agoAI is not some magical pixie dust or golden retriever chasing a stick. It may have its applications in pattern matching, particularly in chewing the exabyte datasets we increasingly have now, but it isn’t going to fetch the answers for us. Heck, it won’t even tell us the questions.
- tim333 7y agoWe shall see. Not today but give it 20 years and you may be surprised.
- davrosthedalek 7y agoIndeed, that is a big impediment in many disciplines. Non-perturbative QCD (i.e. what describes the mass around you) can not be calculated analytically with a controlled level of precision. The best we can do is lattice QCD, i.e. the brute force approach. That's a big difference to QED, where we know how to find better and better approximations in a systematic way. In other words, QCD, like many complex systems, shows emergent behavior not easy to predict from the theory input (couplings, masses). A better mathematical framework to attack these kind of problems would be a substantial jump forward.