Timeline for $p$-adic numbers in physics
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| May 16, 2017 at 9:49 | comment | added | Jules Lamers | See also today's arxiv.org/abs/1705.04758 | |
| Jan 12, 2017 at 14:51 | comment | added | tttbase | Also, take a look at Number Theory as the Ultimate Physical Theory, I. V. Volovich, the fundamental physical laws should be invariant under the change of the number field. | |
| Jan 12, 2017 at 14:46 | comment | added | tttbase | We can equally well spiritually project it upon its non-Archimidean side and calculate most important things arithmetically. The relation between "real" and "arithmetical" pictures of the world is taht of complementary, like the relation between conjugate observables in quantum mechanics. | |
| Jan 12, 2017 at 14:45 | comment | added | tttbase | You should look at "Reflections on Arithmetic Physics, Mathematics at Metaphor by Y Manin" On the fundamental level our world is neither real, nor p-adic, it is adèlic. For some reasons reflecting the physical nature of our kind of livin matter (e.g., the fct that we are built of massive particles), we tend to project the adèlic picture onto its real side. [...] | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 18:14 | comment | added | Laie | A somewhat different take is that an adelic formulation of a problem can sometimes provide a useful technical tool to compute physical quantities of interest. This is independent of the issue whether spacetime might have an underlying adelic structure or not. | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 12:57 | answer | added | Abdelmalek Abdesselam | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 12:18 | vote | accept | mathphys | ||
| Jan 9, 2017 at 11:48 | comment | added | Sylvain JULIEN | I think some researchers tried to deal with adelic spacetime. | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 11:47 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 11:38 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | not sure there is much to add here: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/15252/… | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 11:37 | history | edited | mathphys | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 9, 2017 at 11:36 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_quantum_mechanics | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 11:35 | history | asked | mathphys | CC BY-SA 3.0 |