Knots, World-Lines, and Quantum Computation | Steve Simon | TEDxOxford
In this talk Professor Simon describes the connection between knots of string and certain elementary particles, and how this connection could enable quantum ...
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Translator: Reiko Bovee Reviewer: Ivana Korom Theoretical physics. What does that make you think of? (Laughter) Maybe you had physics in school, or maybe you think of one of the greats like Albert Einstein. Maybe you think of fundamental particles: the elementary building blocks of our universe. I am a theoretical physicist, and I think of these things, but I spend an awful lot of time thinking about knots. What I usually want to know about knots is whether one knot is the same or different from another knot. What I mean by this is: can the knot on the right be twisted and turned around and turned into the knot on the left without cutting without using scissors? If you can do this, we say they are equivalent knots, otherwise we say they're inequivalent. Surprisingly enough, thi...
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Translator: Reiko Bovee Reviewer: Ivana Korom Theoretical physics. What does that make you think of? (Laughter) Maybe you had physics in school, or maybe you think of one of the greats like Albert Einstein. Maybe you think of fundamental particles: the elementary building blocks of our universe. I am a theoretical physicist, and I think of these things, but I spend an awful lot of time thinking about knots. What I usually want to know about knots is whether one knot is the same or different from another knot. What I mean by this is: can the knot on the right be twisted and turned around and turned into the knot on the left without cutting without using scissors? If you can do this, we say they are equivalent knots, otherwise we say they're inequivalent. Surprisingly enough, thi...
