Date: 19/07/2022 12:09:33
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1910580
Subject: Look forward to?

What positive things can we look forward to?

Ever since high school, I’ve had something positive to look forward to. In turn these have been:

But now that Gaia has released its third and greatest data set, and James Webb has released its first images, I find that I have nothing left to look forward to except negative things such as the degeneration of my mind and body, downsizing into crappier accommodation, falling further behind in understanding technology, and more wars.

The following I would look forward to, but it doesn’t look as if they’re ever going to happen in my lifetime:

There has been SFA progress in theoretical physics since the late 1970s (the Higgs boson was proposed in 1964, cosmic inflation in 1979, the pentaquark in 1987).

I suppose I could look forward to?

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Date: 19/07/2022 19:00:34
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1910673
Subject: re: Look forward to?

mollwollfumble said:


What positive things can we look forward to?

Ever since high school, I’ve had something positive to look forward to. In turn these have been:

  • Voyager Spacecraft
  • Get married
  • Get a PhD
  • Work for CSIRO
  • Hubble space telescope
  • Have two children
  • A child to graduate from University
  • Mars rovers
  • Large Binocular Telescope (something of a wash-out)
  • Human genome project
  • Dawn at Ceres, New Horizons at Pluto
  • CERN Large Hadron Collider
  • Hipparcos and Gaia
  • James Webb

But now that Gaia has released its third and greatest data set, and James Webb has released its first images, I find that I have nothing left to look forward to except negative things such as the degeneration of my mind and body, downsizing into crappier accommodation, falling further behind in understanding technology, and more wars.

The following I would look forward to, but it doesn’t look as if they’re ever going to happen in my lifetime:

  • Completely solve the problem of the origin of life, a $10 billion dollar project
  • Unify General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
  • Finding planets around alpha Centauri
  • Prove that Quantum Chromodynamics is not internally self-contradictory
  • Finding dark matter
  • A supernova in the Milky Way
  • The Mohole project
  • “The big one”

There has been SFA progress in theoretical physics since the late 1970s (the Higgs boson was proposed in 1964, cosmic inflation in 1979, the pentaquark in 1987).

I suppose I could look forward to?

  • The SKA – first light after 2027
  • LISA – launch after 2037

So you don’t have anything positive that you’re looking forward to?

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Date: 19/07/2022 19:26:04
From: SCIENCE
ID: 1910686
Subject: re: Look forward to?

you can all look forward to our leaving when pandemic is over

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Date: 19/07/2022 19:30:06
From: Arts
ID: 1910694
Subject: re: Look forward to?

SCIENCE said:

you can all look forward to our leaving when pandemic is over

I hope it is never over.

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Date: 20/07/2022 07:13:21
From: esselte
ID: 1910832
Subject: re: Look forward to?

Langlands program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langlands_program

In representation theory and algebraic number theory, the Langlands program is a web of far-reaching and influential conjectures about connections between number theory and geometry. Proposed by Robert Langlands, it seeks to relate Galois groups in algebraic number theory to automorphic forms and representation theory of algebraic groups over local fields and adeles. Widely seen as the single biggest project in modern mathematical research, the Langlands program has been described by Edward Frenkel as “a kind of grand unified theory of mathematics.”….

“As the program posits a powerful connection between analytic number theory and generalizations of algebraic geometry, the idea of ‘functoriality’ between abstract algebraic representations of number fields and their analytical prime constructions, results in powerful functional tools allowing an exact quantification of prime distributions. This in turn, yields the capacity for classification of diophantine equations and further abstractions of algebraic functions.

“Furthermore, if the reciprocity of such generalized algebras for the posited objects exists, and if their analytical functions can be shown to be well defined, some very deep results in mathematics can be within reach of proof; such as rational solutions of elliptic curves, topological construction of algebraic varieties, and the famous Riemann hypothesis, through abstract solutions in objects of generalized analytical series. Where each of which, relates to the invariance within structures of number fields.

“Additionally some connections between the Langlands program and M theory have been posited, as their dualities connect in nontrivial ways, providing potential exact solutions in superstring theory (as was similarly done in group theory through monstrous moonshine).

“Simply put, the Langlands project implies a deep and powerful framework of solutions, which touches the most fundamental areas of mathematics, through high-order generalizations in exact solutions of algebraic equations, with analytical functions, as embedded in geometric forms. It allows a unification of many distant mathematical fields into a formalism of powerful analytical methods.

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Date: 23/07/2022 14:20:46
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1912222
Subject: re: Look forward to?

esselte said:


Langlands program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langlands_program

In representation theory and algebraic number theory, the Langlands program is a web of far-reaching and influential conjectures about connections between number theory and geometry. Proposed by Robert Langlands, it seeks to relate Galois groups in algebraic number theory to automorphic forms and representation theory of algebraic groups over local fields and adeles. Widely seen as the single biggest project in modern mathematical research, the Langlands program has been described by Edward Frenkel as “a kind of grand unified theory of mathematics.”….

Nice

esselte said:


“As the program posits a powerful connection between analytic number theory and generalizations of algebraic geometry, the idea of ‘functoriality’ between abstract algebraic representations of number fields and their analytical prime constructions, results in powerful functional tools allowing an exact quantification of prime distributions. This in turn, yields the capacity for classification of diophantine equations and further abstractions of algebraic functions.

“Furthermore, if the reciprocity of such generalized algebras for the posited objects exists, and if their analytical functions can be shown to be well defined, some very deep results in mathematics can be within reach of proof; such as rational solutions of elliptic curves, topological construction of algebraic varieties, and the famous Riemann hypothesis, through abstract solutions in objects of generalized analytical series. Where each of which, relates to the invariance within structures of number fields.

“Additionally some connections between the Langlands program and M theory have been posited, as their dualities connect in nontrivial ways, providing potential exact solutions in superstring theory (as was similarly done in group theory through monstrous moonshine).

“Simply put, the Langlands project implies a deep and powerful framework of solutions, which touches the most fundamental areas of mathematics, through high-order generalizations in exact solutions of algebraic equations, with analytical functions, as embedded in geometric forms. It allows a unification of many distant mathematical fields into a formalism of powerful analytical methods.

Thanks!

My own mathematical contribution from a couple of years ago was to use Robinson’s hyperreal numbers (∞≠∞+1) instead of real numbers to evaluate integrals produced by quantum chromodynamics. It worked, and I found that physicists were already using it in their “renormalisation”, without bothering to tell the mathematicians. Or to put it another words, physicists were already successfully extending mathematics beyond the axioms of the standard model of mathematics. Or to put it another way, beyond the scope of the Langlands project. ;-)

> Langlands proved the Langlands conjectures for groups over the archimedean local fields R {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} } \mathbb {R} (the real numbers).

But my work went beyond that to tie quantum theory into the non-archmedean numbers.

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From the web.

> 5 Signs You Take Yourself Too Seriously

> 4. You always need a goal to chase in order to feel happy.

> Humans are goal-oriented creatures by nature. We want to have something to set our sights on, something to work towards, and something to accomplish. Having a dream and going after it is great, but not when it takes you out of the present moment and prevents you from enjoying life in the now. Just because you have something you want to achieve in the future, doesn’t mean you can’t embrace the present. If you can’t feel happy without having something to work towards constantly, you might be taking yourself too seriously. Try to enjoy the little things about life, and remember what truly matters: your family, friends, health, and how you treat others.

Oops, so I don’t need something to look forward to in order to be happy. I’d better remember that.

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