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New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.” “Octonions are to physics what the Sirens were to Ulysses,” Decades on, no particles beyond those of the Standard Model have been found. Meanwhile, the strange beauty of the octonions has continued to attract the occasional independent-minded researcher, including Furey, the Canadian grad student who visited Günaydin four years ago. Looking like an interplanetary traveler, with choppy silver bangs that taper to a point between piercing blue eyes, Furey scrawled esoteric symbols on a blackboard, trying to explain to Günaydin that...

John Baez expounds on what makes the numbers 5, 8 and 24 so specialIn the May 2011 issue of Scientific American mathematician John Baez co-authors "The Strangest Numbers in String Theory," an article about the octonions, an eight-dimensional number system that was discovered in the mid–19th century but that has been largely ignored until quite recently. As the name of the article implies, interest in the octonions has been rekindled by their surprising relationship to recent developments in theoretical physics, including supersymmetry, string theory and M-theory. Baez and his co-author John Huerta wrote, "If string theory is right, the octonions...

If a science is advanced enough it appears as magic. Don Juan, the factional character in Castaneda's books affirmed that we are only awareness. How come then we are trapped in bodies and a material world? The negative memetic energy parasites possess our space-like awareness of matter and use our energy to solidify our awareness in their prison. Magic is the science of manipulating the matter of the prison to return it to its dream-like essence. Energy is vital to RI but with our space-like awareness, we cannot be aware of matter's space-like nature to use RI upon it. Bereft...