Part 1:
2-Number Arithmetic
Si
Emo came to his Grandpa Ki Algo telling him his adventure in the
strange islands of Numberland. Each island is populated by finite
collection of numbers. Each number in the island adds or multiplies to
other number getting other number: 1-Number Arithmetic
Ki Algo: What is the strangest island that you have visited.Si Emo: It is the smallest of the islands is populated by single number.
Ki Algo: What number is that?
Si Elmo: It is zero which is symbolized by 0.
Ki Algo: What is so strange about that?
Si Elmo: The single zero that I met in the told me that in the past there are many zeros lived in the island. But because every time they're melt to each other by addition and multiplication, the island population is reduced. It is because 0 + 0 = 0 and 0 x 0 = 0. So every time they meld a zero is diminished. That's why the population now is only one number: zero
2-Number Arithmetic
Ki Algo: Surely you have a boring adventure in the land of 1-number. What is your next adventureSi Emo: I visit the land of 2-number. The population is the numbers 0 and 1. They have a rule of melding by addition similar to the rule of melding by multiplication for 2-color numbers that Si Nessa had found out. If you add zero to any number, you get the same number. It is similar to zero in our real number arithmetic.
Ki Algo: Well it seems that they follow the rule of modulo 2 addition
Si Emo: What is modulo 2 ?
Ki Algo: If you have a number X, you can subtract the number by 2 repetitively until the rest is equal to a number smaller than 2. The rest number is called X modulo 2. For example 7 modulo 2 = 1 and 4 modulo 2 is 0.
Si Emo: I got it. So the table for the addition is
| + | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
Ki Algo: What about 2-number multiplication rules
Si Emo: The rules can be simplified to the following table
| . | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
Ki Algo: Obviously, it is the rule of multiplication of numbers modulo 2. Because now we have only 2 numbers, let us call the arithmetic of the two numbers as 2-number arithmetic.
Si Emo: Is the 2-number arithmetic a field?
Ki Algo: Yes, it is called finite field by mathematicians. Electric engineers now use it to code their messages across the noisy channel of communication.
space. The classical physics is based on the classical math. The modern relativistic and quantum physics is based on curved 4-dimensional Riemannian
space and the linear algebra of operators on the infinite dimensional complex Hilbert
space.
, in the spirit of Dirac who unified the 2 equally true quantum mechanics (the Heisenberg matrix mechanics and the Schrodinger wave mechanics) in the first quarter of the 20-th century, tried to unify the 5 superstring theories with one supergravity theory into one 11-dimensional supermembrane theory which he called the M-theory
. The M-theory unify the four fundamental forces of nature at a deeper level: at the distance smaller than Planck length and at the high energy beyond the Planck energy.
which is only trying to unify gravitation and electromagetism. Last century,. physics has finally unify the electromagnetic force with the weak and strong nuclear field in a theory of elementary particles called the standard model. M theory is trying to unify the theory of gravitation with the theory of electro-magneto-nuclear forces. The trouble is M-theory as the generalization of superstring theory predict many unknown super-partner particles of the currently known particles. So probably there is a new mathematics for the M-theory to eliminate the unobserved particles. This new math will save M-theory from becoming a kind para-physics rather than physics.
is expecting the unification of M-theory and loop quantum theory with the new general high dimensional algebra called n-category theory. But Baez has a grander vision where he sees that physics and topology is like logic and computation. He hopes that category theory is the deeper unification between those four different disciplines.
has discovered the current mathematics is only a part of a greater mathematics. The new mathematics is structured hierarchically into four systemic levels: the current mathematics, the iso-mathematics, the geno-mathematics, the hyper-mathematics each with its own isodual. The four levels is differentiated through the different lifting of the ordinary multiplication of two numbers and matrices. Santilli hopes that the new greater mathematics will unify physics, chemistry and biology. In fact Santilli started the science revolution by reforming the quantum mechanics by turning it to what he called hadronic mechanics and that distressed mainstream physicists.
who develop the concept of complex number as two dimensional number into a ten dimensional numbers which is called the hypernumbers.
. He hoped that the hypernumber theory will unify physics with psychology. Another mathematician who is interested in unifying physics and psychology,
, is using an 8 dimensional extension of complex number, used by quantum physics, octonion as mathematics of psychology. Octonion is one first two levels of musean hypernumber. Octonion algebra is also just a member of series of hypercomplex number which is known in the mainstream math as Cayley-Dickson algebras.
is a lawyer who is doing physics in his spare times. He has an alternative unified particle physics theory complementing the M theory and loop quantum gravity. He called his theory as
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, the 16 schemes
of Christian Ramon Llull
, the Taoist
oracle of the Chinese, the Hindu
