Rough working notes: "Maps of Matter":
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Started with a whimsical question: can I create an single, universal map of matter?
Turns out that didn't work so well - it's too complicated! But it was fun to try, and did yield a (much more limited) diagram.
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It's also a (very) optimistic exploration of the question: what does it mean for physics that we're getting closer to a theory of all the fundamental particles and fields? Will physics end? No more so than computer science ended with its theory of everything (the Turing machine)!
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Less whimsically, the underlying question here is something like: what new types of matter are possible when you design from the fundamental laws up?
I don't have a very good grasp (at all) of the question, and wrote the notes to improve my thinking a (tiny) bit.
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(re: entirely new types of matter and leaving the periodic table)