On sci.physics.research, Heinz posted this assessment:
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Franca, tell me if I write too much or too little. Here is what I get
from that text. It has 2 claims.
One is mathematical. It claims that the first Reidemeister move (that
is a standard way to deform knots)
is a generator...
I asked about this on usenet. It seems to me that the approach has a chance.
I will post more on this approach to unification once I have made up my mind.
Franca
In the meantime, I asked a bit around. The three belt idea is not
well-known yet. Searching for "three belts" and "SU(3)" gives
no hits anywhere. the manuscript above is a bit terse on
the topic, probably because the main topic is unification.
The main idea is that SU(3) has three copies...
Thank you, that preprint is very interesting! I wanted the three
belts to understand nuclei, but that manuscript does something
much more ambitious: it tries to derive QED, QCD and QAD from
topologocal arguments. Incredible!
Franca
P.S. I very much like this (single) belt trick...
Dear PFers,
I am looking for a way to visualize SU(3). I have heard from a friend
(who heard it as a rumor) that like SU(2) can be
visualized with a (Dirac) belt, also SU(3) can be visualized, but
with three belts, because SU(3) has three independent copies of
SU(2) as subgroups.
I...