Odd. That's exactly how many roads a man must walk down.
Terry
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Attention Hitchhikers ("42" alert):
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> This is not new-news, as it was written up months ago in Wired:
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> http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_lisi
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> But what is new is that more-and-more very sharp folks - the
> creme-de-la-creme of theoretical fizzix, are taking as serious look, and
> saying that a new ToE (Theory of Everything) is holding up surprisingly well
> to close scrutiny, despite the author's somewhat flippant demeanor and
> preference for surfing (the ocean variety).
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> It could evolve into ... well... 42 ??
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> The basics:
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> The universe is 8 dimensional, or more depending on who is reinterpreting.
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> It is of a geometry called a "Gosset E8" discovered 108 years ago by Gosset:
> "On the Regular and Semi-Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions,"
> Messenger of Mathematics, Macmillan, 1900. Thorold Gosset was an eccentric
> English lawyer and who liked mathematics. Apparently, Gosset thought it 8
> dimensional
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> Unfortunately, it is the most complex of the 8-space geometries aka 4sub21.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-polytope
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> The E8 of Gosset was then outfitted with all of the forces of nature by an
> eccentric American "surfer dude" named Lisi. And it was "elegant" which is a
> real turn-on to the theoretician. It is now advanced from its original
> geometric (NeoPlatonic) mysticism.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi
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> in "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything " which itself borrows
> heavily from the work of others.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything
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> Chances are, we will be hearing a lot more of this, as it evolves and gets
> "brought down to earth"; and it is very possible that it will tell us
> something about the aether, and perhaps even point the way that it can be
> engineered for gainfulness. There is little doubt in my mind that with all
> dimensions, it is somewhere. In fact the AWT (aether wave theory) is based
> on the same E8.
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> As you may have guessed the "Exceptionally Simple" part is a "Lie" (to
> understand this pun, you will have to do some goggling).
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_algebra
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> Jones
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