John Carlos Baez on Nostr: The math has been around for decades - but nobody noticed it gives a new framework ...
The math has been around for decades - but nobody noticed it gives a new framework for quantum mechanics from which the Standard Model gauge group and its representation on one generation of quarks and leptons falls out pretty naturally:
arxiv.org/abs/2607.10833
I will probably explain this in a bit, but I'm still recovering from writing the paper!
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