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Can someone try to ELI5 this for me?
by exdsq 6y ago
Can someone try to ELI5 this for me?
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- db48x 6y agoThere is a very excellent tutorial on this subject in Anathem, but Neal Stephenson. Great book too; definitely worth reading.
- exdsq 6y agoThanks, I'll check it out!
- Rebelgecko 6y agoJust a heads up, the analog in Anathem is called "Hemn spaces"
- codezero 6y agoThey are attempting to describe physical reality with a single wave equation, and have constructed one with a lot of interesting properties, and their goal is to break the hamiltonian down into independent components to describe physical systems. The system is a finite-dimensioned Hilbert space (but it's large, like, almost infinite, but being finite is an important feature according to the paper) - and each dimension can be described by an energy spectrum, it's that energy which gives rise to physical reality via fields (and the properties that emerge from those fields). They propose basically a needle-in-the-haystack approach to finding mathematical solutions to the individual energy dimensions, I guess.