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• jacknews 7y ago
  I believe this is somewhat controversial
• m12k 7y ago
  That was an interesting read! Interestingly, John Baez, author of the originally posted link is also quoted in it.
• vankessel 7y ago
  I personally think that the split-octonions[1] hold promise for physics. The subset of the split-octonions where the i, j, k, and l components are 0 have a metric that is similar to that of Minkowski space[2]. (t + xli + ylj + zlk) * (t - xli - ylj - zlk) = t^2 - x^2 - y^2 - z^2 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-octonion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-octonion [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space
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