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From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
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Subject: Re: Univ of Illinois, E. Weinberg finds p-adics in x-rays
Date: 7 Sep 1997 22:39:15 GMT
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In article <seaborg6-tskirvin@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim Skirvin) writes:
>
>Talking with Elliot C. Weinberg whose specialty is p-adics and I hypothesize 
>that the electromagnetic spectrum is written in the p-adic integers for the 
>quantum numbers.

  Good news Tim for you and your student Elliot, but I think premature.
But one day some corner of physics will find that the p-adic integers
are necessary and where the "finite integers" are simply inadequate.
That will be a revolutionary day for mathematics for all of physics is
then written in p-adic integers.