@inthehands I saw you posted that after I replied - apologies!
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I fully expect that string theory will eventually turn out to be completely unrelated to physical reality, but give rise to a new family of useful encryption algorithms or something. Research is like that.https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/11309705... -
I fully expect that string theory will eventually turn out to be completely unrelated to physical reality, but give rise to a new family of useful encryption algorithms or something. Research is like that.https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/11309705...@inthehands Never say never - and now physicists and coming with new math
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I fully expect that string theory will eventually turn out to be completely unrelated to physical reality, but give rise to a new family of useful encryption algorithms or something. Research is like that.https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/11309705...@inthehands The immense changes in mathematics from 1900 to 1940 (when this book was written) could also be a reason for writing it. Like, the literal foundations of math were changing. And he really wanted applied mathematics to not be just military efforts (in the UK)