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Finding links between the Standard Model of particle physics and the octonions
- _Microft 8y agoThe original article at Quanta Magazine has been discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575585
- okket 8y agoDiscussion about octonions from 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575585 (186 comments)
- tranchms 8y agoI highly recommend you watch her thesis on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBTUVg91bao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBTUVg91bao You don’t have to be a math wiz to appreciate the octonion model and it’s implications for fundamental particle physics. It really is a beautiful insight of profound proportions.
- beautifulfreak 8y agoThere are higher dimensional algebras, too. We have: 4-dimensional quaternions, 8-dimensional octonions, 16-dimensional sedenions, 32-dimensional trigintaduonions, 64-dimensional sexagintaquattuornions, 128-dimensional centumduodetrigintanions, 256-dimensional ducentiquinquagintasexions Who knows, maybe reality is explained by even higher dimensional systems. The 32 dimensional algebra ends with "onion," so that's my pick.