Seminario di algebra e geometria
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11:00
presso Seminario VIII piano
The geometrical structure of space has always fascinated
people, and Gauss was perhaps the first to try to settle
this experimentally. Since then it has been the big open
problem in fundamental physics. In this talk we examine
the hypothesis of Volovich that space time is p-adic at the
Planck scale. That spacetime geometry could be based on
a p-adic or even a finite field seems to have been suggested
first in the 1950's. Enrico Beltrametti and his collaborators
(Cassinelli and Blasi) in the late 1960's and early 1970's
were among the earliest in exploring this line of thought.
Igor Volovich formulated his hypothesis in 1987.