[time 149] Re: [time 108] Re: [time 81] Entropy, wholeness, dialogue, algebras


Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Sun, 04 Apr 1999 13:03:11 -0400


>[MP]
>I think that octonions and quaternions and p-adicity are separate aspects
>of theory.

One nice feature of Tony Smith's theory is that particle interactions are
described
by the octonion multiplication table.

Your theory presumably explains these same particle interactions, by a
different
mathematics.

Therefore, if we could isolate the part of your theory that explains
particle interactions,
we would be able to map the octonions onto your theory.

I.e., every theory that explains
the particle interactions covered by the Standard Model ~implicitly~ has
octonions in it;
the question is whether it's worth making this explicit or not

ben



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