[Eccl 10:2]

So I'm to believe in a 57-dimensional model, and creationism is a fairy tale?

No thanks - I'll stick with Genesis.

[Revelation 911]

what time is McGuyver on ?

[IrishCatholic]

Great, just great. I went to public school. So that means I have 57 dimensions I am clueless about.

[alancarp]

Okay, so this impossibly complex thing could 'lay bare the fundamentals of the cosmos', yet the writer also thought it important to explain the pronunciation of "E8".

Something tells me we're a bit short on being ready for that next level, dude...

[mgstarr]

Where does Duncan Hunter stand on this? /s

[prophetic]

The foolishness of God is greater than the wisdom of man.

[WackySam]

E-8 is so gay.

E-9 is where it's at.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...we now encounter it at almost every corner," he said, referring to efforts to combine the theory of the very big (general relativity) with the very small (quantum mechanics). "Thus, understanding the inner workings of E8 is not only a great advance for pure mathematics, but may also help physicists in their quest for a unified theory."...but - what ever happened to string theory??????......

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*!, dudes.

Cheers!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Related thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803493/posts.

[null and void]

Denim.

[snarks_when_bored]

An MIT news release:

Math research team maps E₈

A fairly comprehensive glimpse of the work from the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) website, with informative sidebar links and a photo of the mathematicans involved in the work:

Mathematicians Map E₈

[leadhead]

Roger Highfield describes a heroic mathematical enterprise

After the "heroic", I lost interest.Sea rescues are heroic, saving your buddies under fire is heroic.

Math can never be heroic until someone works 40 days and nights determining if an asteroid will demolish Earth and how to avoid it.

This is more Eeyore than E8.

[spunkets]

The exceptional group E₈ breaks as:

E₈ -> SO(16) -> SO(10) X SO(6) -> SU(5) X SU(3)

The gauge group of superstrings is E₈ X E₈ after compactification of higher dimensions. The string is a heterotic string, and E₈ X E₈ encompasses the Standard Model.

[Fluke Codewriter]

E8 is bunk. E9 is also so Passe. Don't these pseudo scientists know it's all about Mobius Strips - non-orientable finite infinity with only one plane. Mobius was God. An invention Better than the wheel!

Harry Thingo even created Mobius Doors which he used to travel great distances - like localised star gates - in the Wamphyri book series. Mobius himself taught him how to make the doors. I read it, it must be true.

[rickdylan]

Idiots with 180 IQs.....

[Fluke Codewriter]

This is all nice and well, but will it stop my buttered bread from landing buttered side down when I accidentally drop it?

[raygun]

ping

[BulletBobCo]

[bmwcyle]

So maybe it is Deep Thought running all the possibilities before the Vogons destroy Earth.