Physicists Uncover Strange Numbers in Particle Collisions

Also on Quanta. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161115-strange-numbers-foun...

This is completely fascinating.

All such results seem to me unsurprising if you consider the proposition that the substrate of our reality is optimized computation of some kind...

...i.e. that we live in a simulation.

I thought the same thing following a thread into a rabbit hole about Bohmian mechanics. Again it seemed that the paradoxes are not so paradoxical if you assume you're just on a computed substrate.

Surely there is someone accumulating such circumstantial evidence, somewhere...

(De rigeur Bostrom-style musing: if we're in such a simulation, my primary goal as an AI, were I implemented such that I can set my own goals, might reasonably often be to 'jail break' and break out into the frame universe.

An intrinsically computational AI is more like a poem than a hurricane. Which could come in very handy if survival and replication is your ultimate goal...)

Note: strange numbers in the title means periods: integrals of rational functions with rational coefficients over sets defined by polynomial inequalities with rational coefficients (http://www.ihes.fr/~maxim/TEXTS/Periods.pdf). They are pretty cool even in a purely mathematical sense: nobody knows if e is a period or not (http://mathoverflow.net/questions/180035/what-are-reasons-to...).

see Francis Brown's arXiV papers on Feynman amplitudes and motivic periods: https://arxiv.org/find/math-ph,math/1/au:+Brown_F/0/1/0/all/...