New Particle Collision Math May Offer Quantum Clues
quantamagazine.org
quantamagazine.org
This touches on a cool problem I saw a talk about a few years ago.
The problem is this: Feynman diagrams are a fantastic notational tool for particle physics models. But the induced equation solving for the associated model is pretty monstrous if done naively. With some care, you can simplify having 100 integrals to calculate down to 10 or so. Roughly speaking.
It sounds like this series of works is about better algorithms for systematically and performantly doing these calculations/ solving the types of math problems that arise out of Feynman diagrams ?
I'm surprised to see such a technical subject being covered in a popsci article. It's pretty much as far as you can get from the usual fare of big-picture speculation about the interpretation of QM etc. The very last sentence ("it may even foreshadow a new perspective on reality") almost seems like an afterthought, added at the last moment to appease the audience.
"Physicists have algorithms to compute the probabilities of no-loop and one-loop scenarios, but many two-loop collisions bring computers to their knees....
"Researchers use computers to essentially guess at millions of relationships and laboriously extract the combinations of integrals that matter....
"[With new cohomology methods] When researchers compute the weights, they see that scenarios with the longest-lasting virtual particles — that is, cases in which the particles become essentially real — shape the outcome the most. ...
"Last week Mizera, Mastrolia and colleagues published another preprint showing that the technique has matured enough to handle real-world two-loop diagrams."
I've been hoping for a long time that math'ers would make more sense of QM. Fingers crossed.
For me the whole branch of physics that deals with particle colliders is a big hoax. Quarks and other particles are simply too small, compared to the size of the sensors that we use to "detect" them. The output those sensors is basically just a static electricity noise, which physicists try to make sense of.
Highs boson was predicted and found at LHC, it conforms with standard model. Care to explain the hoax of it?
Whats next disease are caused by foul air, miasma?