Friday, April 17, 2009

Ants and Matrix Theory

For the last 5 or 6 days there has been a trail of ants across the sidewalk on my daily walk. It's about an inch wide and marches across the four feet of sidewalk. I can't see what attracts them from coming or going where ever they come or go to or from. But it must be an ants goldmine to keep tens of thousands of ants busy as little bees for severall days.
In the book "The Trouble With Physics" I'm at an impasse. They convert the mathematical operations (a=b+c+d) to Matrix Theory. I understand matrices and I can picture arrays of numbers but am unable to understand the physical meaning or how to transform ordinary math forms to a matrix array. What does it all mean? Could the secrets of the Universe be tied up in the intricacies of Matrix Theory? Or not....
Transforming to Matrix Theory proves that we're all on this flight together.

Dick

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