Adamant does try to keep six months ahead of
The Economist
This time we managed nine:
Geometry is all
Nov 22nd 2007
The Economist print edition
A shape could describe the cosmos and all it contains ONE of the mysteries of the universe is why it should speak the language of mathematics... Now comes a paper which argues that one branch of the subject—geometry—could form the basis of all the laws of physics... that is what Garrett Lisi is proposing...of a structure known to mathematicians as E8... It has 248 dimensions and its structure took 120 years to solve. It was finally tamed earlier this year
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