[Pearls Before Swine]

Whatever happened to the furor over the E8 symmetry group? I thought it was supposed to unite the Standard Model with some of the more modern variants?

After all, I almost, or at least have some hope of, understanding octonians. E8 is much further out there.

Wikipedia on E8

Or, this, An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

[DUMBGRUNT]

Surely, you jest or is it Shirley, you jest?
Is brain damage from strain cumulative?

If nothing else. staring at the E8 Petrie projection; was soothing.

... The Weyl group of E8, which is the group of symmetries of the maximal torus which are induced by conjugations in the whole group, has order 21435527 = 696729600....