The way things really work: Octonions

[JuiceTheGator]

Read this and see the beautiful complexity, and the simplicity, in the way things actually work.

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

 

[JuiceTheGator]

Here, let me help. The tiniest particles we don't understand, yet, move in an octogonal fashion. The crap which surrounds them attaches in a predictable way. If this can be understood, all of science will change....especially the most important chromodynamics.

 

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Read this and see the beautiful complexity, and the simplicity, in the way things actually work.

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.

getpocket.com

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

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