Hi,
I hope you have not missed Ian Steward's paper on the number
8, considered as a TOE in the last new scientist.
It mentions a paper by John Baez on the octonions. The
octonions seems to be a key ingredient for the quantization
of general relativity.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/Octonions/
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 07:12 AM, Marchal Bruno wrote:
Hi,
I hope you have not missed Ian Steward's paper on the number
8, considered as a TOE in the last new scientist.
It mentions a paper by John Baez on the octonions. The
octonions seems to be a key ingredient for the quantization
Tim May wrote:
The articles, especially those by Marcus Chown, are wildly speculative
hints at what may be aspects of reality...at least this is how I treat
them. And what appears to be just idle speculation sometimes is linked
with things I know to be important (a cover story on the work
as just noted by TCM, kevin kelly on a computational/algorithmic TOE,
wolfram, wheeler, etcetera, from current issue of wired.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/holytech.html
I would say we are all in the midst of some kind
of algorithmic revolution that is sweeping across
culture,
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