Cohl Furey sounds like a goddamn new Marvel character, but actually she's a mathematical physicist. Can that really be her name? As a novelist, I feel reality is cheating by being so fucking dramatic:https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720/ …
Yeah, the two obvious ways to break the claim are by going to integers mod p (which don't contain the real numbers), or function fields (which are infinite-dimensional over the reals)
-
-
This is literally what my doctorate is in so I'm going to be super picky
-
Do tell, for the lay crowd. We all want to be able to explain the universe, but I stopped doing algebra and started doing French pretty early in the game. Wish I'd had an older brother to tell me not to do that, but it's way too late.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.