https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1403.0769/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673533urn:hackerpapers:mention:1403.0769:7673533Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:32:30 GMT<p>Fascinating effort to formalize a medieval treatise - De Luce (“On Light”, written around 1225) - about the origins of the universe into modern mathematics. What the researchers discovered and why they did this is explained at The Ordered Universe Project. http://ordered-universe.com/ Their paper on this was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society but can be found on arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0769</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1403.0769/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.hist-phhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656779urn:hackerpapers:mention:1403.0769:7656779Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:45:35 GMT<p>Taken directly (with permission, but it&#x27;s still basically blogspam like everything on phys.org) from http://theconversation.com/medieval-bishops-theory-resembles.... This, although it looks like it ought to be blogspam :-), does appear to be the original location of that article, which was written by people actually involved in the research. The recent paper they reference (&quot;A medieval multiverse?: Mathematical modelling of the 13th century universe of Robert Grosseteste&quot;) is at http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/470/2167/2014... but isn&#x27;t openly accessible. But at…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1403.0769/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.hist-ph