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It's pretty remarkable that despite Feynman Diagrams being invented in the 1950s, before computers and computer science, they are still state of the art so many
by machina_ex_deus 4y ago
It's pretty remarkable that despite Feynman Diagrams being invented in the 1950s, before computers and computer science, they are still state of the art so many years later. It was back at the time where physicists did most calculations by hand.
You'd have thought something more efficient would've turned out by now, since there was barely a sensible definition of efficiency back then.
- LeegleechN 4y agoFeynman diagrams are a representation of an integral so moving beyond them is a question of reformulating the mathematical basis of physics. There is some work in that direction (look up 'Amplituhedron') but overall it's not that surprising that physicists are using computers to do the same math with much more precision than they could before rather than shaking up the fundamental mathematical tools of their field which have stood since the 1600s.