https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1112.3068/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753872urn:hackerpapers:mention:1112.3068:39753872Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:33:57 GMT<p>Agree but very much with your caveat. If you study the mathematics of some sort of abstract structure you are doing research in pure maths. That is a worthy and completely legitimate pursuit and a ton of stuff started life as pure abstract mathematical research and ended up having real-world benefits way down the line that noone could have forseen.[1] If on the other hand you say that abstract structure is a fundamental building block of the universe and, say, unifies the standard model with gravity etc but actually your theory isn&#x27;t explaining anything observable I would say that isn&#x27;t…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1112.3068/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-ph