Timeline for Has physics ever given a physical significance to a mathematically abstract idea?
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| Jun 26, 2021 at 6:47 | vote | accept | Adil Mohammed | ||
| Jun 11, 2021 at 6:05 | comment | added | Deschele Schilder | This is not to say that "Lie math" is of great value. I'm not sure if you can say that high-energy stuff has an inherent mathematical structure though. The stuff it real, but the math? In general relativity, spacetime has mathematical properties and math structures can be imposed, but are they real existing in spacetime? The spacetime is real (as elementary particles), but is the math inherent to (for?) spacetime? | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 6:00 | comment | added | Deschele Schilder | It might be though that the assumed mathematics of symmetry breaking is not there (in the field of high energies). It might turn out that the weak force is a residual force. And the Higg field a normal field (with no associated false vacuum), thereby not providing a mass for all massive particles. It might be that there are more fundamental massless particles, giving rise to massive particles (because of their interaction in a bound state) and a residual weak force. Eventhough the math of the electroweak unification is impressive, this doesn't mean that it corresponds to reality. | |
| Jun 9, 2021 at 18:31 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Well, not first in historical order! :-) . | |
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| Jun 7, 2021 at 20:37 | history | answered | Cosmas Zachos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |