Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Post-Modern Text Generator or Real Math? You decide!



I quote:

"Hamilton's Diabolical Singularity



Hamilton's first application of the concept of phase-space - later so fruitful in physics, especially in the hands of Dirac - was a prediction in optics: conical refraction in biaxial crystals.



This was one of the first successful predictions of a qualitatively new phenomenon using mathematics, and created a sensation. At the heart of conical refraction is a singularity, anticipating the fermionic sign change underlying the Pauli exclusion principle and the conical intersections now studied in quantum chemistry.




The light emerging from the crystal contains many subtle diffraction details, whose definitive understanding and observation have been achieved only recently. Generalizations of the phenomenon involve radically different mathematical structures."

Whaddya think? Did I just make that up with some site such as: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo? Or is it real?