From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3105 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dominic Hughes Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: cracks and pots Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:26:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019097 7272 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:31:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:31:37 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Wed Mar 15 19:18:49 2006 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:18:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.52) id 1FJf6e-0002x6-Ic for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:08:40 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: thue.Stanford.EDU: dominic owned process doing -bs In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 51 Original-Lines: 15 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3105 Archived-At: Roger Penrose, page 960 of "The Road to Reality - A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe": Another idea that may someday find a significant role to play in physical theory is *category* theory and its generalisation to n-category theory. [...] It would not altogether surprise me to find these notions playing some significant role in superseding conventional spacetime notions in the physics of the 21st century. Dominic http://boole.stanford.edu/~dominic