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ORIGINAL: MasterCaneman

All I want to know is when do we get the holodecks? And transporters would be cool too. Definitely holodecks, though. Giggity.

On a more serious note, what exactly does that all mean other than now the eggheads can perform experiments they couldn't before? In other words, what's the payoff, other than knowledge?

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ORIGINAL: TNDommeK

Am I the only nerd who found this totally awesome?

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

DomKen do you really understand the article? I don't... it is far beyond my understanding and makes no sense. To me this theory is like talking into two tin cans connected by a taught string and claiming to have discovered the internet.

Butch

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Immediately, nothing. In the long term it will greatly speed up and simplify modeling of quantum interactions which could lead to a unified forces theory which could lead to manipulation of gravity. Further it could bring quantum computing to the market place in years rather than decades.

I learned scattering amplitudes from a mathematics stand point in college. These functions had to, at the time, model each interaction outcome individually which resulted in dozens to hundreds of pages of calculations which not even the super computers of the era could calculate in any reasonable time frame. Reducing those to a mathematical description of a multidimensional solid makes all those basic calculations nearly trivial and also opens up examining relationships and higher order interactions using fairly basic algebra.

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ORIGINAL: MasterG2kTR

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Immediately, nothing. In the long term it will greatly speed up and simplify modeling of quantum interactions which could lead to a unified forces theory which could lead to manipulation of gravity. Further it could bring quantum computing to the market place in years rather than decades.

I learned scattering amplitudes from a mathematics stand point in college. These functions had to, at the time, model each interaction outcome individually which resulted in dozens to hundreds of pages of calculations which not even the super computers of the era could calculate in any reasonable time frame. Reducing those to a mathematical description of a multidimensional solid makes all those basic calculations nearly trivial and also opens up examining relationships and higher order interactions using fairly basic algebra.

Cool.....that means hover boards are on the horizon......

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: MasterCaneman

All I want to know is when do we get the holodecks? And transporters would be cool too. Definitely holodecks, though. Giggity.

On a more serious note, what exactly does that all mean other than now the eggheads can perform experiments they couldn't before? In other words, what's the payoff, other than knowledge?

Immediately, nothing. In the long term it will greatly speed up and simplify modeling of quantum interactions which could lead to a unified forces theory which could lead to manipulation of gravity. Further it could bring quantum computing to the market place in years rather than decades.

I learned scattering amplitudes from a mathematics stand point in college. These functions had to, at the time, model each interaction outcome individually which resulted in dozens to hundreds of pages of calculations which not even the super computers of the era could calculate in any reasonable time frame. Reducing those to a mathematical description of a multidimensional solid makes all those basic calculations nearly trivial and also opens up examining relationships and higher order interactions using fairly basic algebra.

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ORIGINAL: MasterCaneman

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: MasterCaneman

All I want to know is when do we get the holodecks? And transporters would be cool too. Definitely holodecks, though. Giggity.

On a more serious note, what exactly does that all mean other than now the eggheads can perform experiments they couldn't before? In other words, what's the payoff, other than knowledge?

Immediately, nothing. In the long term it will greatly speed up and simplify modeling of quantum interactions which could lead to a unified forces theory which could lead to manipulation of gravity. Further it could bring quantum computing to the market place in years rather than decades.

I learned scattering amplitudes from a mathematics stand point in college. These functions had to, at the time, model each interaction outcome individually which resulted in dozens to hundreds of pages of calculations which not even the super computers of the era could calculate in any reasonable time frame. Reducing those to a mathematical description of a multidimensional solid makes all those basic calculations nearly trivial and also opens up examining relationships and higher order interactions using fairly basic algebra.

I can understand what the implications of manipulating gravity could mean. Quantum computing would be a boon, to be sure. But being a business-guy, I like to see what the numbers mean for the numbers that mean, if you know what I mean. Applications. Does this lead to SSTO, fusion, a cure for cancer? That's the problem I have with theoretical physics-I want to know what it means once they start bending metal. If they even can start bending metal.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Sometimes it takes a while to go from theoretical to practical applications.

For instance scientists knew about the semi conductor phenomena prior to the 20th century but it took until the 50's to produce the first transistor. Since then the transistor and the IC chip, based on the semiconductor as well, have transformed society. I doubt any of the guys at Bell Labs in the 50's could have predicted all of that before they got the first transistor working.

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ORIGINAL: MasterCaneman

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Sometimes it takes a while to go from theoretical to practical applications.

For instance scientists knew about the semi conductor phenomena prior to the 20th century but it took until the 50's to produce the first transistor. Since then the transistor and the IC chip, based on the semiconductor as well, have transformed society. I doubt any of the guys at Bell Labs in the 50's could have predicted all of that before they got the first transistor working.

I can understand that. My question was more of a statement on the nature of business and funding. All that research costs money, because physicists tend to require that in order to continue buying comic books and going to scifi conventions in the off hours.

What's needed is for someone to accurately (or semi-accurately) project what kind of technologies to expect in order to keep the juice (money) flowing. Finance types are who really run this world, sad to say, and they need to see light at the end of the tunnel in order to keep that sweet river of cash flowing.