I've thought of bringing up the Monster group here before, but I didn't think anyone here would be that weird, since I even get "weird" reactions to my ideas about the Riemann zeta function. I've noticed the connection with the number 26 also. (By the way, for some unknown reason in my childhood 26 was my favorite number ;)
In the past I've been drawn to the Monster group and the classification of finite simple groups, perhaps for reasons similar to other mathematically inclined people. There's just something mysterious about the fact that there are only a finite number of classes of this type of mathematical object. And yet it is a rather non-trivial number, larger than the number of spatial dimensions, and even larger than the number of platonic solids, or the number of faces on the largest platonic solid. And when you look at the order (size) of the largest of the finite simple groups (the Monster group), it is huge. And yet it is the largest. This seems to be a signpost that something fundamental is going on here. On the other hand, if I recall correctly without checking, rings and fields don't have such a classification such that there are a finite number of some basic type of them. I'm just shooting off at the hip, but I wonder if this has to do with the fact that groups have only one operator (addition or multiplication, say), whereas rings and fields have at least 2. This rings a bell with the sufficient complexity needed for Godel's Incompleteness Theorems (and a nontrivial G/G*?). A similar point is that there are an infinite number of primes, whereas the number of classes of finite simple groups is finite. Another caution is to note the failure this approach in the past, notably with Plato's "theory of everything". We don't want to go down the path of numerology, which is a lot of what comes up when I google "monster group" and "multiverse". But on the other hand, this is part of the nature of exploring. Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
