{"id":223040,"date":"2025-10-07T23:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/origami-patterns-solve-a-major-physics-riddle"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:30:52","slug":"origami-patterns-solve-a-major-physics-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/origami-patterns-solve-a-major-physics-riddle","title":{"rendered":"Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/origami-patterns-solve-a-major-physics-riddle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/physicists-discover-geometry-underlying-particle-physics-20130917\/\">mystical quality<\/a>: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a young mathematician at Cornell University named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.ucla.edu\/~galashin\/\">Pavel (Pasha) Galashin<\/a> has found that the amplituhedron is also mysteriously connected to another completely unrelated subject: origami, the art of paper folding. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2410.09574\">proof posted in October 2024<\/a>, he showed that patterns that arise in origami can be translated into a set of points that together form the amplituhedron. Somehow, the way paper folds and the way particles collide produce the same geometric shape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPasha has done some brilliant work related to the amplituhedron before,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/nima-arkani-hamed-and-the-future-of-physics-20150922\/\">Nima Arkani-Hamed<\/a>, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/physicists-discover-geometry-underlying-particle-physics-20130917\/\">introduced the amplituhedron<\/a> in 2013 with his graduate student at the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.ucdavis.edu\/directory\/faculty\/jaroslav-trnka\">Jaroslav Trnka<\/a>. \u201cBut this is next-level stuff for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young mathematician at Cornell University named Pavel (Pasha) Galashin has found that the amplituhedron is also mysteriously connected to another completely unrelated subject: origami, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}