[FRIAM] The fundamental theory of physics

[Frank Wimberly]

I know John Baez.  John Baez is a friend of mine.

See if anyone recognizes that allusion.

Seriously, Hywel White, Barry MacKichan, Jon Zingale  and I read Baez's
book "Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity" a year or two ago.  He begins in the
first section by showing why one forms (and higher order forms) and
manifolds are better than vector fields for doing physics.  It's because
they work in higher dimensions better.  Then in the second section he
develops the math of gauge fields bundles and connections.  In the third
section he develops models of gravitation using semi-Riemannian geometry.

I understood 90% of the first section 50% of the second and 20% of the
third.  I understood the math much better than the relationship of it to
physics.  Hywel probably would say the opposite.  I'll let Jon and Barry
speak for themselves.

Frank

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:38 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> Wasn’t John Baez doing this stuff in the late 90s?
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> What do you think of Stephen Wolfram's latest findings? It is always
> interesting to see what he is doing IMHO
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> https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/
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> -J.
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