"This discrepancy has been described as "the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics."[1]
The magnitude of this discrepancy is entirely beyond the descriptive power of any kind of commonplace comparison. For instance, the statement "the observable universe consists of exactly one elementary particle" is closer to being true, by at least ten orders of magnitude, than the incorrect vacuum-catastrophe prediction."
Vacuum catastrophe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(via +Juha Kopsa)
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"You're searching for the source of that mysterious scream you heard in the woods. Your group refuses to split up."
Mochizuki had invented a new branch of his discipline, one that is astonishingly abstract even by the standards of pure maths. “Looking at it, you feel a bit like you might be reading a paper from the future, or from outer space. Mochizuki has estimated that it would take a maths graduate student about 10 years to be able to understand his work, and Fesenko believes that it would take even an expert in arithmetic geometry some 500 hours. So far, only four mathematicians say that they have been able to read the entire proof.
"The new analysis of these past solar storms also confirms that they were several times stronger than the most intense solar storms that have been recorded on Earth [such as the Carrington Event]."
(Article from last July.)
via Artem Russakovskii
One of the most terrifying things I've ever read. Mother Nature is scary. Very scary.
It's a long read but just trust me on this and read it through.
This week's reminder that, though it's not the one from Back To The Future, we are living in the future.
