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I tried to understand this paper but failed miserably, can anyone ELI5 for me?

• lordgrenville 6y ago
  Seconding this. My very basic understanding was that you propagate a wave with a frequency of the first integer, then overlay another wave of the next, and so on. As you go up, eventually the primes appear as the only place where they interfere with each other completely so the wave is at 0.
  • posix_compliant 6y ago
    This is describing the sieve of eratosthenes! Very cool.
• mensetmanusman 6y ago
  Not ELI5, but the position of prime numbers on the number line can be thought of as atoms on a 1 D crystal. The spacing is quasicrystalline. The interesting thing about quasi-crystals, are that they can be modeled as higher dimensional crystals projected on a lower dimension.... (quasicrystals are super stable, which is why we find them in meteorites, we have no known way of manufacturing bulk quasicrystals).