From: Carl Brannen [mailto:carl@brannenworks.com] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 6:29 PM To: Gregg D. August Subject: Re: Pencil
Gregg,
I'm not sure I told you this, but there is a massive amount of
work going on related to a paper out by Garrett Lisi a week ago:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770
This is based on the group E8, and it seems to work well with
my stuff. It's being argued about on the web. For example, see
neutral commentary here:
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/11/theoretically-simple-exception-of.html
anti commentary here:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/11/exceptionally-simple-theory-of.html
and pro commentary here:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=196498
My own contribution to this is a Java applet for the E8 roots
here:
http://www.measurementalgebra.com/E8.html
The above Java applet is now being downloaded at the rate of nearly
once per minute. I'm going to release an improved version later
tonight.