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New "theory of everything"

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:08 pm
by vinylrake
Interesting article about a new "theory of everything". Unlike string theory it;s a lot simpler (it only needs one dimension of time and 3 of space - ouch now my brain is hurting) - and it might actually be testable.

While the article is interesting the mathematical shape at the root of the theory is what made my head explode - It's called 'E8' - and is 'a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year...E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself 248-dimensional.'




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... urf114.xml

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:40 pm
by Baak
Cool stuff!

lol - 248-dimensional - holy crap! :D

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:43 pm
by lank
very, very cool stuff. i myself favour loop quantum gravity over string theory for a theory of everything, but this is really intriguing. i must find out more about it...

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:35 pm
by Frumius
Hmm, in light of this new information I'm formulating my own theory as to why/how I keep slipping into this weird "space" in which I seem to be temporarily stuck in a parallel universe coexisting on another dimensional plane -- in which Baak has a beard!

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:37 pm
by Baak
Frumius Wrote:Hmm, in light of this new information I'm formulating my own theory as to why/how I keep slipping into this weird "space" in which I seem to be temporarily stuck in a parallel universe coexisting on another dimensional plane -- in which Baak has a beard!

Your Agonizer please, Mr. Mob.