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BarCamp Boston IV Talk on New Physics, New Math, and New Programming

923 views · Published 19 June 2009 · 1:04:32 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: Doug Sweetser · 2009 · Science & Technology

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Please see the "GEM Blog: GEM Unification Rescinded, Officially" video.

The topics were examined: physics, math, and programming.  I look at problems, new approaches, and new contributions in these three areas.  The first problem in physics is that our theory for gravity does not get along with quantum mechanics.  We don't understand mass at any scale.  In math, we have the real and complex numbers, but what numbers will work out-of-the-box for 4D spacetime?  It is not clear visually what the difference is between real and complex numbers.  In programming, there is not a universal, open source video format.  New physics is possible by upgrading from tensors to division algebras.  There is also may be a new constant velocity solutions involving gravity.  New math appears by developing a 2 limit definition of a quaternion derivative.  Animations of complex numbers makes images where real reflections look different from imaginary reflections.  The new programming is the software and web site devoted to creating animations from equations.  How that software is used is demonstrated.  This new physics/math/programming is applied to visualizing the delayed choice experiment in quantum mechanics.  The video ends with a few datapoints about Doug Sweetser.

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