Hypergraphs are everywhere
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Published 2022-10-27
Maybe I’m just seeing things, but it seems to me that hypergraphs are everywhere: physics, chemistry, biology, neurology, ecology, sociology, technology.
What I want to know is:
Why?
Why are hypergraphs everywhere?
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Molecular structure – Styrene-butadiene chain2 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Styrene-butadiene_… by Guido Raos, professor of chemistry, Politecnico di Milano, Italy commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gmrozz licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
Metabolic pathway – BRENDA pyrimidine metabolism www.brenda-enzymes.org/pathway_index.php by BRENDA – The Comprehensive Enzyme Information System www.brenda-enzymes.org/index.php licensed under CC BY 4.0 www.brenda-enzymes.org/license.php
Brain image – Neurons & glia www.flickr.com/photos/nichd/17104545478/ by The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) www.flickr.com/photos/nichd/ licensed under CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Pelagic food web – An in situ perspective of a deep pelagic food web commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_in_situ_perspec… by C. Anela Choy, Steven H. D. Haddock and Bruce H. Robison royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2… licensed under CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
Social graph – Partitions in my social graph commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partitions_in_my_s… by Matt Biddulph www.flickr.com/people/51035707449@N01 licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
Internet map – Internet map commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_4096.… by Matt Britt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Britt licensed under CC BY 2.5 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/deed.en
Feynman diagram – Paarbildung commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paarbildung.png by Ivan Baev de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Schroedinger licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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All Comments (16)
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perhaps it is not hypergraphs that are everywhere, but everywhere that is a hypergraph
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Almost every thing has a structure. And every structure is a bunch of things connected with relationships. Which we represent as graphs. Yes, that one was quite simple to understand
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This is perfect for the kids in my class.... Great job sir!!!
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What did the Node say to the Hypergraph at the bar? I like to live on the edge.
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That was an excellent presentation, good on you
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Hi there, Great video as it was insightful and unexpectedly complex yet enjoyable to learn. Could you perhaps do a video on the physics of holograms? I'm sure you will find it fascinating 😄
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Why you call these hypergraph instead of just... Graph?
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is there such a thing as an undirected hyperedge. where the order of nodes within the curly brackets does not matter?
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Would u please also talk on semigraph and disemigraph too ?
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The late Bruno Latour might be interesting in this context
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expecting similarity on every scale should be expected. thinking digitally on an analog brain ignores most input and as far as i can tell, infinity has no scale. every thing can be graphed thought of as a wave and calculus is a maths that uses infinite sums to generate waves. i would like to say also that if inclined to add infinite sums see what happens when you write an attempt to balance the equation. infinity plus one, is infinity... balance it and 1=0. it is dumb or smart thinking.. i don't know
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Uhh These are just graphs man.. But nice Video in visualization and storytelling
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Several of those are just graphs...
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"What I want to know is: Why? Why are hypergraphs everywhere?" They are not. This is no different than seeing animals in clouds only with something is pretty much formless in the first place. This does not mean that Wolfram's ideas are full of it but it does not support it either.
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