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Why is that a concern? Are you worried that the string theorists will swallow this whole? If they had really understood these kind of observations, we would have discovered it by now.

Assuming that the first order relation is indicative of duality, this would be Langlands, or electric magnetic duality, most simply understood via relations coming from the modular group, or its braid group cover. This suggests interpreting the Gaussian term as a trace factor (usually called d...

Why geometric Langlands? Classical Langlands might be more relevant than the kind of continuum geometry that is studied as a result of, say, string theory prejudices.

Garrett, you can no longer claim to be an outsider. And I would happily be homeless with such a fortune, which could sustain me for years.

To be honest, I am REALLY not at all impressed. Obviously, it's who you know that counts. Two token women, only one of them a physicist, working on a theory that no longer agrees with observational data. Paolo Bertozzini was also rejected, probably for the crime of living in Thailand. There are...

Thanks. Tony Smith says he is thinking about linking some of the quantum geometry (Dynkin diagrams from dessins) to your E8 structure.

Yes, I know all that but it doesn't answer my question. I am demanding more from unification than some pretty mathematical patterns. Like for example a derivation of the standard model parameters, and the implementation of principles beyond classical gravity. How do you propose achieving this?

Really? I'm a bit confused about your physical justifications here. E8 is mathematics. What are the physical reasons for thinking a superconnection is sufficient to describe gravity?

Thanks for the link on E8. I see he refers to Bars, Gunaydin, Duff, Witten and other interesting authors, so I look forward to reading it. Note that another way to write the tribimaximal matrix is as a product of quantum Fourier operators F_3 F_2, one associated to three dimensions (mass...

Garrett, does your new investigation of E8 involve the trinities of Arnold and Lieven Le Bruyn, and groups like the monster? Since the Kostant construction involves the p=11 and other features of trinity, I think this is a natural question.

And many non String theorists ...

LOL, Carl! But according to etiquette, you should refer to it as Motl statistics, or as ternary statistics, following kneemo's terminology.

Carl, of course it is nice to have a derivation of so many particle masses, but I am guessing that people will still complain that v and s constitute 2 parameters for 2 outcomes in each case (forgetting for the moment the nice 'coincidence' of choice of scale etc), so could you please elaborate...

Says who, Marcus?

Let's not get off topic. I just saw a very nice PI lecture on American Pragmatism by the philosopher Misak, including questions and comments by Smolin, Lisi, Harvey Brown, Lucien Hardy, Chris Fuchs and others. Available at: http://pirsa.org/08050041/ It might help explain our superquantum...