3 ms·
And it still has glaring omissions. One thing it still can't do is group theory. I'm not a mathematician, but I occasionally need some group theory stuff at wor
by captainmuon 13y ago
And it still has glaring omissions. One thing it still can't do is group theory. I'm not a mathematician, but I occasionally need some group theory stuff at work. This is stuff that is either tabulated or can be calculated easily by a computer. Like "show me a matrix representation of SU(3)" or "decompositions of SU(5)" or "irreps of SU(10)" or something. Group theorists have these little equations with circled operators, like 1+8=3 (imagine numbers in bold and a circle around the plus. I just made up the numbers, but they're usually as wierd), that I can never wrap my head around no matter how often I've tried. But they are kind of important for particle physics, and I hope that wolfram alpha will eventually incorporate that stuff.
Actual particle physics is also lacking, everything besides simple queries like "mass of the top quark" is missing (and the mass it gives is not up-to-date). I would like it to have "decay modes of neutralino-1 at m0=1000, m12=1000, ..." or "higgs mass=126, particle-such-and-such-mass=1000, solve for parameter-x" and it would show me valid values for x resulting in these masses. This is all easily implementable, but I guess the market for it is too small (otoh, I don't know what the market for "dog vision" is...(