Recent content by Aztral

Thanks for the overview henry_m! I've always found a bit of a synopsis about what I'm about to study keeps me more focused :) I'm kind of starting a bit before i). I'm trying to get up to speed on "groups" in general before proceeding on to Lie Groups. I've download a few pdf books. Anyway...

Hi, Ya..I'm getting most of my info off wikipedia (garbage-in garbage-out). I was trying to extrapolate from E8 (which I thought was a Lie group) to to the Leech lattice. On wikipedia the entry for E8 says..."E8 is any of several closely related exceptional simple Lie groups, linear algebraic...

I don't think this could ever work. Well...unless you want to go all "1984." hehe

Hrm...ya-I guess maybe this would work huh? It results in a never ending race between measure/countermeasure which would be...tiring. But it could work. It doesn't necessarily follow that 'would' work, but it would at least be possible. I dunno...I guess time will tell. Judging by the...

You are preaching to choir here :) But nukes are 'controlled.' It need not be the case the next BIG discovery requires such difficult to obtain materials...maybe a trip to Radioshack is all that's needed. And while true, major conflicts seem to have diminished due to fear of the horror...

What if a discovery would result in putting a huge amount 'power' into the hands of everyone? Ya know? e=mc^2 "just" resulted in nukes, and they are hard to make. What if a discovery brought that kind of power into the hands of anyone that wanted it? Just a thought! :)

I am not saying that all. I am just asking for people to be careful. Also, I don't know what the solution is. I think some secure way of 'doing science', and discussing it ought to be implemented. But what form would that take? How would it be implemented? How would you decide who a 'good'...

A Plea for "THINK before you PUBLISH!" I posted this here because this is really an ethics question. This is a plea to those here at PF that actually 'work' in physics and publish papers. And those who may 'one day' publish. So I'm pretty much a 'nobody' in the science world, but I've been...

Leech lattice is a 'lie group?" My understanding of Lie groups is non-existent. But I'm trying to understand if the Leech lattice is a 'lie group?"

Hi. I was speaking of [SIZE="5"]TOE, as opposed to a gut or a "toe." :)

Right! And the more I think about it, the more I realize that in a 'TRUE' TOE some of the items in this list would imply other items (and vice versa). And some items would just be redundant.

Great-thank you. So, so far I'm on the right track in compiling a list of the 'big' observations that must be explained? Oh..I forgot. g) dark energy dark matter ratio Anything else?

Another silly question here :) What are some of the cosmological observations a TOE must agree with? (I'm making a list) Some that I can think of... a) redshift data (Type 1a supernovas, etc.) b) element ratios (Hydrogen, Helium,...) c) bias toward 'matter' rather than 'antimatter' d) CMB...

Hrm..ok. Thank you for answering my question :)

Hello, Maybe a strange question here (I'm not 100% current with the standard model), but does the standard model say anything about a change in the ratios of fermions as the universe expands? (I see Generations I, II & III listed)