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/ …
-
-
If it's too big it's useless anyway, in other words?
-
Right.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
They'll look at something like 'well, the complex numbers are twice as complicated as the real numbers, but you can do a lot more with them' and perk up. 'Well, this other system is infinitely more complicated and doesn't solve anything' is much less appealing.
-
I guarantee you that the average mathematician is looking at that article and thinking 'octonions, huh? good luck but yeah I don't think so'. They're a pain in the ass and nobody's found much use for them.
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.