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We all know the hour of inebriation is almost upon us. While nestled into the uncomfortable seat at the in-laws, drink in hand, trying to tune out your MIL droning on and on about her sister's health, or some new hallmark movie (that's exactly the same at every other one that's ever been created), or even worse... politics. I present you with a topic the truly latch on to, dive deep into, wrestle over, and dwell on. One that will completely consume your whiskey watered down intellect and leave you sublimely distracted from the mildly demoralizing yet necessary situation you find yourself in.
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Arkani-Hamed believes the concept of time itself may be behind the discrepancy. In physics equations, time is used to keep track of the sequence of things as events unfold. But he has come to believe that organizing particle collisions according to "when" unnecessarily complicates the mathematics. Instead, he's experimenting with abstract geometric shapes that can describe events without using time.
Arkani-Hamed says that these shapes can't yet replace the idea of time, but he believes that at some point time itself will be supplanted by some other theory of what makes the Universe tick.
"It's unlikely to survive in the fundamental principles of an even deeper understanding of physics," he says.
Researchers say time is an illusion. So why are we all obsessed with it?
Even guardians of America's atomic clocks say time doesn't work the way we think it does.
www.npr.org
Arkani-Hamed believes the concept of time itself may be behind the discrepancy. In physics equations, time is used to keep track of the sequence of things as events unfold. But he has come to believe that organizing particle collisions according to "when" unnecessarily complicates the mathematics. Instead, he's experimenting with abstract geometric shapes that can describe events without using time.
Arkani-Hamed says that these shapes can't yet replace the idea of time, but he believes that at some point time itself will be supplanted by some other theory of what makes the Universe tick.
"It's unlikely to survive in the fundamental principles of an even deeper understanding of physics," he says.
