Comments on: E8 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:56:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Fady http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-273165 Fady Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:49:21 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-273165 I just don't understand how is there a thing in the whole universe that can exist in more than 3 dimensions?? and if we consider the world in four dimensions, we then used another new dimention called "time" but how can more than those 4 dimensions appear in our world?? in the 3 dimensions, the three coordinates of the x,y and z are perpendicular to each other, but if we consider a 248 dimensional space, what will be the angle between them? i'm keen on understanding the e8 so please if anyone knows the answer to any of the previously answered questions pls send me a mail. thanks I just don’t understand how is there a thing in the whole universe that can exist in more than 3 dimensions??
and if we consider the world in four dimensions, we then used another new dimention called “time”
but how can more than those 4 dimensions appear in our world??
in the 3 dimensions, the three coordinates of the x,y and z are perpendicular to each other, but if we consider a 248 dimensional space, what will be the angle between them?
i’m keen on understanding the e8 so please if anyone knows the answer to any of the previously answered questions pls send me a mail.
thanks

]]> By: Downloaded Music Top » Blog Archive » E8-Squawk (Marguerita 0036) http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-190194 Downloaded Music Top » Blog Archive » E8-Squawk (Marguerita 0036) Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:02:36 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-190194 [...] E8 // Centripetal NotionThis is a 2-dimensional projection of E 8 , a 248-dimensional object seen here simplified into only 8-dimensions to help preserve sanity. Essentially, if I understand it correctly … [...] [...] E8 // Centripetal NotionThis is a 2-dimensional projection of E 8 , a 248-dimensional object seen here simplified into only 8-dimensions to help preserve sanity. Essentially, if I understand it correctly … [...]

]]> By: ARMAN AZIZ http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-181362 ARMAN AZIZ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:46:58 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-181362 i would like to know more about E8 and its use in finding the ultimate unified equation i would like to know more about E8 and its use in finding the ultimate unified equation

]]> By: Toward an EXCEPTIONAL Theory Of Everything & Ptolemy’s Revenge « Raphie Frank :: business artivist http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-175477 Toward an EXCEPTIONAL Theory Of Everything & Ptolemy’s Revenge « Raphie Frank :: business artivist Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:28:03 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-175477 [...] E8 image from Centripetal Notion   [...] [...] E8 image from Centripetal Notion   [...]

]]> By: The Guild of Scientific Troubadours » Surfer creates Theory of Everything. http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-172329 The Guild of Scientific Troubadours » Surfer creates Theory of Everything. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:29:06 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-172329 [...] There’s a piece in the Telegraph (based, apparently, on a New Scientist clip) about Dr. A. Garrett Lisi, an “impoverished surfer” who looked hard at a pretty geometrical shape (called “E8″) and realized it could possibly be used as a map for everything. He might just have solved the step beyond Grand Unification Theory (though there’s no word as to whether he, like Nobel-winning surfing biochemist Kary Mullis, had any, um, biochemical assistance in making his conceptual breakthrough, just look at E8, maaan). Anyway, this realization - that the forces of the universe could be shaped like this spirograph-like swirl of interconnected lines - could be a very big deal indeed: Lisi’s inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan. [...] [...] There’s a piece in the Telegraph (based, apparently, on a New Scientist clip) about Dr. A. Garrett Lisi, an “impoverished surfer” who looked hard at a pretty geometrical shape (called “E8″) and realized it could possibly be used as a map for everything. He might just have solved the step beyond Grand Unification Theory (though there’s no word as to whether he, like Nobel-winning surfing biochemist Kary Mullis, had any, um, biochemical assistance in making his conceptual breakthrough, just look at E8, maaan). Anyway, this realization - that the forces of the universe could be shaped like this spirograph-like swirl of interconnected lines - could be a very big deal indeed: Lisi’s inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan. [...]

]]> By: Dallas112263 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-166248 Dallas112263 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:55:44 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-166248 This is representation of the underlying physical structure of the universe... It is also a piece of common string art, an expensive one... It also is resonate with representation of the apttern in other cultures and in Nature herself, some would call it The Mandala. I'm no math wiz, but I am told this it, "the simple explanation of everything", hmmm... Google "Garrett Lise"... And Register to Vote! Dallas112263 This is representation of the underlying physical structure of the universe…

It is also a piece of common string art, an expensive one… It also is resonate with representation of the apttern in other cultures and in Nature herself, some would call it The Mandala. I’m no math wiz, but I am told this it, “the simple explanation of everything”, hmmm…

Google “Garrett Lise”…

And Register to Vote!

Dallas112263

]]> By: T http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-154055 T Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:51:16 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-154055 When I was a kid I used to stuff like that in 5 minutes using my "Spirograph". Who knew I was plotting multidimensional objects. Huh. And mom said I'd never amount to anything. When I was a kid I used to stuff like that in 5 minutes using my “Spirograph”. Who knew I was plotting multidimensional objects. Huh.

And mom said I’d never amount to anything.

]]> By: Eliena Andrews http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-153926 Eliena Andrews Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:25:54 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-153926 wow, that's really unbelievable. Hope its not photoshop work ? wow, that’s really unbelievable. Hope its not photoshop work ?

]]> By: Justin Ruckman http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-152542 Justin Ruckman Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:49:53 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-152542 <strong>Isaac:</strong> well said Isaac: well said

]]> By: Isaac http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-152532 Isaac Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:40:22 +0000 http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/03/22/22:31:00/#comment-152532 <p>What I find most interesting about both this image and popular science 'imaginings' like those of the Tenth Dimension is the attempt to render abstract mathematics in non-mathematic terms. This must be impossibly difficult--something like describing the smell of your lover in numbers. Yet images with accompanying text such as is given here allows the non-initiated some insight into the vast complexities of contemporary mathematics.</p><p>And before we criticize non-mathematical models of, well, mathematical models, we should remember that what they are offering is not the truth of the formulas (for that is only contained in the formulas), but an aspect of the complexity. In that way, the image on this page represents, or presents, two things to me: the description given, no doubt, but also popular representations of science are but shadows of the machinations and productions of scientific research.</p> What I find most interesting about both this image and popular science ‘imaginings’ like those of the Tenth Dimension is the attempt to render abstract mathematics in non-mathematic terms. This must be impossibly difficult–something like describing the smell of your lover in numbers. Yet images with accompanying text such as is given here allows the non-initiated some insight into the vast complexities of contemporary mathematics.

And before we criticize non-mathematical models of, well, mathematical models, we should remember that what they are offering is not the truth of the formulas (for that is only contained in the formulas), but an aspect of the complexity. In that way, the image on this page represents, or presents, two things to me: the description given, no doubt, but also popular representations of science are but shadows of the machinations and productions of scientific research.

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