quote:The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
There’s a suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions".
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quote:Originally posted by Axtremus:
Last time I read about something like this, it was the quarternions (4-tuple maths). The matheticians seem to have better luck with 4-tuple than 3-tuple, and skip over 5/6/7-tuple to develop the 8-tuple stuff (octonions).![]()