Thursday, November 29, 2007

the image of everything


There's this surfer dude who's actually got a PhD in Physics who has published in the respectable New Scientist a theory of everything, as reported in Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything.

He bases his math on this 248-dimensional lovely object [here drawn in two dimensions], known simply as E8.









i like the resemblance to mandalas, such as this arabic mandala:





















or this tibetan one:


























or indra's net of pearls






















or bucky fuller's geodesic dome:


















or m.c. escher: