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Do strange numbers explain reality?

Some think that the properties of our universe are based on strange numbers which have eight dimensions, called octonions.

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Octonions: Do eight-dimensional numbers underlie the universe?

From Natalie Wolchover at Quanta: Complex numbers, suitably paired, form 4-D “quaternions,” discovered in 1843 by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, who on the spot ecstatically chiseled the formula into Dublin’s Broome Bridge. John Graves, a lawyer friend of Hamilton’s, subsequently showed that pairs of quaternions make octonions: numbers that define coordinates in an Read More…

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