The Amplituhedron: Why Space-Time Is Not Doomed

From Sabine Hossenfelder.

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Scientific magazines and websites have been raising quite the hubbub about the Amplituhedron, a geometric structure that can be used to simplify calculations in particle physics. They claim that its existence means “space-time is doomed,” or some other nonsense along those lines. Today I will (try to) explain what all this is about.

Paper 1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2007
Paper 2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05483
Paper 3: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16282

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