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Read this and see the beautiful complexity, and the simplicity, in the way things actually work.
Cohl Furey, a mathematical physicist at the University of Cambridge, is finding links between the Standard Model of particle physics and the octonions, numbers whose multiplication rules are encoded in a triangular diagram called the Fano plane. Susannah Ireland for Quanta Magazine
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
There’s a suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.
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Cohl Furey, a mathematical physicist at the University of Cambridge, is finding links between the Standard Model of particle physics and the octonions, numbers whose multiplication rules are encoded in a triangular diagram called the Fano plane. Susannah Ireland for Quanta Magazine