Physics

I argue that the answer is yes, by reviewing the history and current status of such a theory.  Since 1982, I have been developing a series of such theories, beginning in 1982 with an N --> infinity limit of 2+1 dimensional matrix model (the IAS model), through another N --> infinity, T --> 0 limit of a BFSS model.  During this time our work was complemented by Adler's Trace model and others.   

Beginning in 2012, Cortes and I developed a different approach to an relational quantum cosmology by adding intrinsic energy momentum to Sorkin et al's causal set models.  The addition of energy- momentum as intrinsic variables opens up a new mechanism for the emergence of space, and spacetime, plus interacting relativistic particles.  Note that the warm phase is purely algebraic, you need no prior existence of any space to get other dimensions to emerge.   In 2021 I discovered how to derive quantum non-relativistic many body theory from what has since been called the Causal Theory of Views.  Finally in papers since we report progress on the construction of special and general relativistic  Causal Theory of Views.

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Zoom link: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/95891848248?pwd=TUpWK2RWbU9GTGxZS1lMeS81QWp1dz09

Disordered elastic systemsare ubiquitous and encompass a rich variety of systems ranging from amorphous solids, colloidal suspensions and network glasses to dislocation systems, biopolymer fiber networks, confluent cell tissues and even strange metals and machine learning. TheJamming transition characterizes the loss of rigidity of a large class of amorphous materials and provides one of the most paradigmatic frameworks to describe the critical behavior that is exhibited by several classes of disordered viscoelastic systems. In this talk, I will discuss the fascinating statistical physics of systems near jamming and show results of a new theory that is both analytically tractable, and that includes an interesting crossover scaling behavior. I will then combine this theory with phenomenological scaling arguments to derive the singular behavior of the dynamic response near this transition, which I will use to determine critical exponents, invariant scaling combinations and analytical formulas for universal scaling functions of a variety of quantities. Finally, I will show how these results can shed light into the anomalous charge-density fluctuations of strange metals and discuss how the incorporation of active elements (self-propulsion) affects the universal scaling framework of a class of disordered elastic systems.