Talk:Super Minkowski space

Was This Jargon Tag Really Necessary?[edit]

I saw the "Jargon" tag at the beginning of the article. With much due regard for that assessment, there's an irreducible gulf between mathematics and prose. For the average reader to comprehend this article is unrealistic. You'd have to explain Lie groups and Lorentz transformation and any number of other concepts vital to really grasping space-time vector math first. It would be a larger article, which might suit some editors, but appall others. Each group of editors has a point.

Would wikilinking to those concepts reduce the concern about jargon? A caveat: it'd only be likely to help those readers with a good grounding in linear algebra.

A perfectly accessible explanation of super Minkowski space would require a very talented writer who also has a good understanding of the mathematics involved. In all (cough) modesty, I'd have to refresh in linear algebra and physics to even approach the project, so I won't just now. But if someone with those qualifications wants in, sure, go for it!

My point is that the author of this tag expects a popular-audience explanation of a subject that is second or third year math for an engineering or physics student in university. I'd like to suggest that there's room in Wikipedia's reader base for people with all levels of mathematical erudition.

Perhaps we need to talk about how realistic it is to expect an entry-level discussion of Super Minkowski Space here. At least until we get an editor who's got such an explanation at his or her fingertips to rewrite the article, the article's also valuable in its present form for people who do have the requisite math to understand this concept (put perhaps haven't yes had a lecture on it during their formal education). loupgarous (talk) 02:15, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it. It was indeed absurd. There's nothing wrong with the article as written. 67.198.37.16 (talk) 14:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]