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| Jun 12, 2010 at 22:26 | comment | added | Sean Tilson | ...or is the nature of homotopical results (lack of certain "physical" rigidity) going to be a hinderance in application? | |
| Jun 12, 2010 at 22:26 | comment | added | Sean Tilson | i am curious what you would think of the audio i reference on my comment to paul's answer. have you had a chance to listen to it? I will interpret your main point as follows: The applications people are mentioning are for the most part related to Stable homotopy groups of spheres whereas the unstable ones are more interesting to physicists for obvious reasons and further that the applications mentioned earlier are more physical because they are really about lie groups. So should homotopy theorists be spending more time thinking about lie groups? ... | |
| Apr 29, 2010 at 15:05 | comment | added | rat | Well, I just stressed the confidence that today nothing indicates a possibility for such applications in Physics. Who knows what can happen, and what will be applied in future? | |
| Apr 29, 2010 at 14:04 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | "There is no single hope..." The history of Mathematical Physics has proved many such statements wrong -- what Wigner called the "unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences." | |
| Apr 29, 2010 at 12:47 | history | edited | rat | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
The comment was expanded, clarifications and an opinion was added.
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| Apr 28, 2010 at 17:34 | history | answered | rat | CC BY-SA 2.5 |