Nima Arkani-Hamed and Thomas Lam in Conversation

The Universe Speaks in Numbers - May 29, 2019

Physics and mathematics seem to be in a pre-established harmony, as Gottfried Leibniz observed long ago. New ideas generated by mathematical researchers have often proved to be essential to physicists trying to discover the most basic laws of nature. Likewise, physicists have often generated new insights into advanced mathematics. This event explores the astonishingly productive relationship between physics and mathematics and explores whether these disciplines might one day unify, perhaps leading to a giant structure that encompasses all the laws that describe the underlying workings of the universe.

[enterprisesoftwarearchitect]

Whenever Nima talks, we all win! He is a hero, a great entertainment, and an inspirational lecturer. One comes to wish that his name would be heralded by the public more than names like Tyson and Kaku that have less of an impact on the future (IMHO). Apologies to anyone this might offend.

[LordZordid]

Nima always does a great job of explaining things in a clear and concise manner. Much appreciation from those of us who are a little slow. :)

[pankajdey]

Nima, you are an inspiration to young research community irrespective of any field of science and engineering.

[myname-mzlo]

its amazing how much of this makes its way into music theory . im only an amateur in physics but music theory helps understand this stuff better its weird .

[krzysztofdanel]

Nima is always excellent and I like very much watching and listening Him .

[eenkjet]

This looks like Fractal Information Theory (FIT)-Derived Geometric Musical Language (GML) which maps well to Holographic Boundary Conformal
Field Theory (BCFT).

[liamwiddess]

Er, permutation at 8:44 is messed up, it's not bijective, RHS contains 3 twice :D

[BlueSoulTiger]

Hand-drawn slides! Yes!! Kudos sirs :)

[naimulhaq]

Nima's connection between physics and mathematics seems promising, but explaining complexity, due to spin (BOHM) is better tackled by self-error correcting algorithm of quantum computing functions, if such an algorithm can be evolved. QC function may lead to a deeper insight into the boundary between micro and macro world and much more, like explaining consciousness, life, soul, time etc.

[naimulhaq]

Does amplituhedron or associahedron lead to tackling quantum complexity?

[nadernader]

Does anyone know what these numbers at 5:33 slide represent, i.e., 12, 23, 34, etc?

[frun]

Nima always told amplituhedron is related to perturbative expansion. Does amplituhedron have a relationship to nonperturbative qft?

[BlueSoulTiger]

8:58 perhaps better?: a Permutation is a re-ordering of a bunch of symbols or elements of set (not necessarily numbers)

[davidwilkie]

"It's only words" of observation, (line-of-sight quantization, mathematical methodology numberness, associated with 1st law of Thermodynamics/orbital and Entanglement symmetry-equation etc), collapsed wave density and intensity of modulation, (2nd law of Thermodynamics, ideal gas vanishing point Singularity positioning formulae etc), that Temporal Superposition-point Singularity Superspin Modulation resolves into this described coordinated n-dimensionality of e-Pi-i positioning, (ball-stick<-> vertices in vortices combined thermodynamics for eg), resonance-shapes of Quantum Chemistry mathematically, specifically quantized probability dominance sequences, in Polar-Cartesian AM-FM Timing-spacing shaped-Spacetime, in QM-TIMESPACE.

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