Comment E8 is not the answer, M is the answer! (Score 1) 511
E8 is not the answer, M is the answer!
... I mean, E8 has *only* 248 dimensions, whereas M has 196,883 dimensions!
AFAIK, E8 is the largest exceptional Lie group, but why limit reality to Lie groups?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_simple_groups)
I think our reality deserves to be described by the largest sporadic group, the Monster:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/Monstrous_Moonshine_conjecture.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_group
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week66.html
AFAIK, E8 is the largest exceptional Lie group, but why limit reality to Lie groups?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_simple_groups)
I think our reality deserves to be described by the largest sporadic group, the Monster:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/Monstrous_Moonshine_conjecture.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_group
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week66.html
