[Vinnie]

....programming to successfully map E8, (pronounced "E eight") .........

Written for all government school graduates. LOL

[Dr.Deth]

"On the Moon, we have five thousand dimensions. Don't question it!"

[azhenfud]

Dangblastit!


I mispronounced it.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Are you are (un)excited over this as I am?

[capitalist229]

You can file this away in the same govt Ark warehouse where the other 2000 mathematical breakthroughs are stored.

There's a new one discovered every week now.

It's a good thing that our surroundings are real and NOT a math model. Otherwise evolution would have never happened.

Give me a break.

BUMP

[Miles the Slasher]

Somewhere, at the end of the E8 calculation, I am sure the answer ultimately = 42.

[RightWhale]

structures that Nature has left for the mathematician to play with

Nature doesn't leave structures, mathematicians create them. This is nearly pure cartesianism, modernism. Even art left this stuff behind a century ago.

[SunkenCiv]

[RightWhale]

In light of a comment on another thread recently, the laws of the universe are supposed to be simple. This seven mile chessboard might be flat and simple, but anything that describes everything describes nothing that the real thing wouldn’t do as well.