{"id":14173,"date":"2013-09-19T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14173"},"modified":"2013-09-19T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T08:00:04","slug":"getting-to-the-next-level-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14173","title":{"rendered":"Getting to the Next Level Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/quanta\/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics\/\">A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have no way to evaluate this. This could be overselling a new idea or they could be onto something. If there&#8217;s a geometric way of expressing scattering probabilities, great. I suppose it&#8217;s possible to view Feynman diagrams as expansion terms of some function, so if they&#8217;ve found a way to figure out the underlying function, that&#8217;s wonderful. Amplituhedron seems a tad cute, but then I&#8217;m in a sub-field where someone made up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bosenova\">Bosenova<\/a>, so atomic physics doesn&#8217;t exactly have the high moral ground here.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that gives me pause is any claim that they have discovered any &#8220;true&#8221; nature of anything. Like all of physics, we are talking about models. Physics describes how nature behaves, not what it really is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics I have no way to evaluate this. This could be overselling a new idea or they could be onto something. If there&#8217;s a geometric way of expressing scattering probabilities, great. I suppose &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}