What if electrical energy did not attenuate during transmission?
What if a computer had exponential computing speed and perfect accuracy?
Professor Duncan Haldane once tried to answer this question. In the autumn of 2016, this physicist and two of his friends won the Nobel Prize in Physics for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"!
Simply put, through various rigorous experiments, they found that even the smallest microscopic matter could exhibit macroscopic properties and have a topological phase.
To understand what this meant, it required an understanding of topology.
Everyone knew that mathematicians looked at problems from a different perspective. They often saw things by their essence. Topology was a discipline that studied the geometric shapes and spaces that remained unchanged through transformations.
