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The Jewel at the center of the universe - Magical Realist - Jan 17, 2025
Fascinating leap in metaphorical understanding of the universe! A 3 dimensional object revealing all the secrets of the cosmos! A modern rendition of the Philosopher's Stone of alchemy? Or perhaps shades of McKenna's Transcendental Object at the end of time?
"According to legend, the Philosopher's Stone is a mysterious MacGuffin, almost always a red rock in reference to the alchemy term "rubedo". It was created by either magic or alchemy.
It allows the user to do any number of things, including:
Transmute any metal into gold.
Be able to live forever through an elixir of life.
Ascend into Godhood."
https://psmag.com/environment/feel-space-time-maybe-exisitng-66647/?fbclid=IwY2xjawH3kLxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWgtGGb8chgpNLQZVT0Su0imbMe0a6950tSwyDXrYDV59f6B806Bs1UvBg_aem_6YlNC-ipJfMhzrerBeh0aA
"New research, which turns out to not really be all that new, suggests that space and time do not exist. The research also suggests that a jewel (an “amplituhedron”) is the center of our universe and that from said jewel every feature of our known reality can be quantified. This is crazy, right? Like, why-the-hell-am-I-sitting-at-this-desk-right-now-as-I-tumble-through-a-universe-that-is-governed-by-features-that-are-incomprehensible-to-my-human-mind crazy. But maybe not, actually.
To find out, I spoke with Jacob Bourjaily, a theoretical physicist at Harvard who is closely familiar and very much involved with this strand of research. In December, he co-authored a paper titled “Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian.”
Yeah. Yeahhhhh."
RE: The Jewel at the center of the universe - C C - Jan 19, 2025
Sabine Hossenfelder ... https://youtu.be/DKVWMX0idsg
RE: The Jewel at the center of the universe - Magical Realist - Jan 19, 2025
Great! A sure fire way to make some very arcane math equations more easily calculable. That'll explain everything!
“[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid